Dispatches from conferences in the Middle East don't tend to make interesting reading, but Jay Nordlinger managed to write five this week. He attended the World Economic Forum on the Middle East...

Tom Gross describes the new West Bank in the Wall Street Journal. It was in much better shape than I expected when I visited in 2006, but it did not look like this:e had driven from Jerusalem to Nablus without going through any Israeli checkpoints....

Remember, you can read my blog on Kindle if you haven't already signed up. If you don't own a Kindle, you can pick one up here. I'm spending a lot of time on my book right now and am making good progress, and I have more long-form material coming...

I'd rather spend a day working on my book than picking apart President Obama's speech where he announced a "surge" of troops in Afghanistan, so let me just say I agree with both John Podhoretz and Tom Ricks, two men who often don't see eye-to-eye on...

Maybe you won't think this is funny, but I do: The famous shoe-throwing Iraqi has a shoe thrown at him by another Iraqi in Paris. Don't miss the video.

Max Boot is quite right that the Middle East needs Dubai, and not only because it embraces modernity and flouts the region's taboos. It's also an example of good government, at least by the Arab world's standards, and good economics if you look past...