"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late."
-Martin Luther King

2011 was the most tumultuous year in the Middle...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict affects the lives of people far beyond the narrow strip of land that both sides are fighting over. It dominates the international agenda, preoccupying diplomats and statesmen from around the world, most of whom probably wish that this problem would just go away.

It is a...

We are clearly living in tumultuous times. Seven months on from Mohamed Bouazizi lighting himself -- and then the Middle East -- on fire, any claim that the Tunis ripple would lap the shores of Tel Aviv was, until very recently, met with a kneejerk dismissal and a...