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Joshua Lipson

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Bring Back the Pharaoh!

After thirty years of autocratic rule in Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak has yielded to the dictates of a democratic revolution. In living up to...

Love / Jihad: A Valentine’s Day Special

Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion for a change in tone: a poetic reflection of mine set loosely in Middle Eastern history and firmly to the tune of love. Think about it, enjoy it.

Speaking Truth to Liebermania

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is a racist, an ultra-nationalist, and at times an all-around national embarrassment. But he might be onto something. A longtime...

Babbling Towards Beirut: Lebanon Undone

Upon coming to from a nitrous oxide-induced coma this Monday, my dental surgeon told me that I’d been babbling endlessly about Lebanon as my...

The Reset with Russia

Two years of “da” to a new partnership

A Lesson to Learn as Mount Carmel Burns

By strange designs of fate and family, the two places I’ve flown to most are southern California and Israel. And although the two occupy...

Ghajar and the Middle Eastern Minority

In the high-powered, well-researched world of Middle Eastern border politics, everyone knows about the Golan Heights, the Litani River, and the Sinai Peninsula. But...

Of Synagogue And State

Religious plurality comes in many shapes and sizes. Take the case of Israel, often dismissed by foreign observers as simply ‘the Jewish state’. The...

Cold Turkey?

By the conventional wisdom of the day, Turkey is hot. While America is caricatured as ‘empire on the decline’, Europe as ‘the shrinking continent’,...

A Jewish and Democratic State … And It’s Not New York

In what’s thought to be a move to appease the right wing of his government, Netanyahu has successfully advanced through Knesset a bill that...