Embracing the Rebel Girl: That’s Who We Are

05.21.2023 __On April 19, 1909, in the village of Tabriz, a a 24-year-old American, Howard Baskerville, a recent Princeton graduate Continue reading →

Jimmy Carter’s Salvific Presidency: An Appreciation

02.26.2023 __“We value virtue but do not discuss it,”John Steinbeck wrote in Travels with Charley. “The honest bookkeeper, the faithful Continue reading →

World Cup: Triumph, Defeat, Angst – Promise

12.04.2022 __GOOOOAL! I was torn this week as I watched the World Cup football (soccer) match between the United States Continue reading →

IRAN: Too Much Hair, Too Much Voice, Too Much Woman

10.09.2022 __”I’ve got too much hair, too much voice and I’m too much of a woman for them,” Iranian-American journalist, Continue reading →

All is Not Well: Don’t Go Back to Sleep

01.12.2020 ________________________________________ “There is more going on … than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and Continue reading →

Iran and Iraq: Is The Price Worth It?

01.05.2020 ________________________________________ Since Nov. 15, when protests against the Iranian government – many violent – broke out in 21 Iranian Continue reading →

Kurds Have No Friends but the Mountains

10.13.2019 ________________________________________ Recently, after an evening spent discussing the Middle East an international student, who had previously introduced herself to Continue reading →

Trump vs. Iran: ‘Cocked and Loaded’

06.23.2019 ________________________________________ On January 12, 2016, two US Navy riverine command boats were seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Continue reading →