Tip of the Tongue

Many years ago, New York Magazine published its famous map of the world as seen by New Yorkers, with New York and California occupying...

Yesterday, in accordance with Israeli’s unique way of scheduling it right before Independence Day, Memorial Day for Fallen soldiers was ma...

Judea and Samaria , the Occupied Territories and the West Bank are three names that describe the complex reality of almost 6,000 square m...

Alice, the speaker of the wonderful sentence “Words means what I want them to mean,” would feel at ease today in Israel.  After each and ev...

National languages seem like inevitable facts. The language of your country is like your dominant hand. You don’t choose it.  However, the ...

The average citizen of the Western world, especially the political leaders, is quite disappointed with the Middle East these days.  The loc...

The British government and public have had an intimate part of the marking of the modern Middle East.  London was a controlling factor in t...

Average citizens in the civilized West must be baffled by current and not so current political events in the Middle East.  These include E...

The Middle East is truly difficult for the Western World to understand.  It seems familiar and similar,  but peculiar and annoying differe...

The Middle East is a crossroad of cultures, ancient and modern, East and West.  Countless travelers, languages, foods and styles have pass...

As an American who has lived some 23 years in Israel, I have learned to appreciate a certain reality which escapes people who have never b...