- Found: That Great Hadith Scholar, Nebuchadnezzar…
- Found: A Philological Detail and a Methodological Point
- A Brief Syriac Bio of an Arabic Poet
- An Iraqi Jewish Voice on Zionism in 1938
- MESA: No Longer Non-Political?
- Event Horizons: Turkey’s Military Coups and Varied Trajectories of History
- Did Muhammad Quote Paul?
- Recovering the Role of Christians in the History of the Middle East
- Al-‘Amiri’s Book of Notification of the Virtues of Islam
- Found: The Birmingham Qur’an (N=1)
- Teaching Digital (Middle Eastern) History
- Found: Early Modern Armenian Historians, or the Value of Outdated Editions Online
- Found: Pros and Cons of Multiple Calendars in the Medieval Middle East
- Partying Like It’s 1299: al-Dimashqi on Easter
- Found: Ibn Taymiyya on Palm Sunday
- Is ISIS Medieval?
- A Surfeit of Calendars in the Middle East
- Constructed Social Phenomena: The Right Metaphor?
- Islamic(ate) Studies at UChicago
- The Why and How of US Intervention in Iraq
- The Perils of Partitions: Iraq & Syria
- Found: 1918 List of Mosul Religious Buildings
- Lost: What’s in a Name?
- The Mosul Expulsion Decree
- The End of Christianity in Mosul
- The Qur’an in What Context?
- What is History?
- World Cup
- Iraq from the Northwest
- Missing the Boat: Public Religion in the Middle East
- Yemen at Center Stage
- Non-Muslim Significance? In the Company of Others…
- Non-Muslim Significance? The View from Below
- Non-Muslim Significance? The Advantages of Marginalia
- Non-Muslim Significance? The Danger of Oversimplification
- “Middle Eastern Christians? Who cares?”
- The Scurrilous Precision of Dates
- Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem II Karim
- Found: A New Patriarch of Antioch
- Still Looking: Abducted Bishops
- Found: Disunity
- Lost: The Meaning of “al-Anfal”
- Don’t Look Now
- Lost in Space?
- Who are the Chaldeans?
- A Middle Eastern Perspective on Evangelii Gaudium
- Louis Sako on Middle Eastern Christians
- Watching and Waiting
- What America Forgets About Syria
- Killing for a (Humanitarian) Cause
- Syria’s Solution Depends on Moscow
- Why does the Muslim Brotherhood Hate the Copts?
- Found: Rumors and Suppositions of the Aleppo Bishops
- Syriac Christians Between Syria and Turkey
- A Lost Afghanistan
- The Difference Between Pragmatism and Loyalty
- Found: New non-News on Abducted Bishops
- Needed: (Near-)Consensus on Legitimacy
- The Human Dimension of Syria’s Conflict
- Found: The Power of Lost Causes
- The Expected Fate of US Arms in Syria
- Found: Dissension in Hezbollah’s Ranks
- Is Egypt Catching the Common Coup?
- Needed: Egyptian Definition of Freedom
- Syria: That Other Middle Eastern Crisis
- Two Interesting Reads on Syria
- The Sins of the Fathers…
- Found: Journalistic Differences
- Iran’s Election and Syria
- Who are Syria’s “good guys”?
- Lost: The Expected Cost of Syrian Regime Operations in Lebanon
- Lost: Syrian Rebels’ Strategy
- Found: Dialogue or Trap?
- Best piece on Syria in a while
- A Disappointing Lack of Details
- Yesterday and Today in Syria
- Lost or Found: Driving a Hard Bargain?
- Proxy Variables and Drone Effectiveness
- Found: Syria’s Other Secularist Opposition
- Who is George Sabra? (part 4)
- Found Again: Rumor of Abducted Bishops’ Good Health
- Are Drone Attacks Legal?
- Lost: Moral Reasoning on Drone Attacks
- Who is George Sabra? (part 3)
- Who is George Sabra? (part 2)
- The Chechen Connection
- The Terrorist Challenge to Liberal Democracy: IEDs
- Who is George Sabra?
- Found: The Myth of American Omnipotence
- Syria’s Two Revolts
- Found: location of Aleppo metropolitans?
- Lost: Specificity of Responsibility
- Do airstrikes serve Israeli interests?
- Found: Easter on Cinco de Mayo?
- Found: Proxy War Opportunity
- Surveying Muslims
- The Fall of the Minaret
- Found: Unverified News
- Lost: Voices of Moderation in Syria