IntroductionToday, I have chosen to focus on conflicts in the Middle East, a region I have been deeply interested in and have ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon follows on the heels of Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir as the latest Israeli film to offer a compelling, often very personal reflection on the 1982 Lebanon War. Maoz served as a ...

It was Mark Twain who famously said that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” In other words, events rarely recur in exactly the same way, but the similarities can be striking, and ...