Christopher Dickey

The elections in Lebanon present Washington and its Arab allies with a real opportunity. But it won't last long.

The election results are good news for the Americans. But Obama shouldn't read too much into the vote.

The day after President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo offering a "new beginning" in relations between the United States and the Muslim world, NEWSWEEK'S Christopher Dickey sat down with the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud al-Faisal, to discuss the speech and its implications.

To address the future of the Middle East, Obama must look to the past.

Two diplomats pick up a discourse put on hold for 30 years.

The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency on what it's like to negotiate with the Iranians.

Why the NYPD heavily publicizes foiled terror plots.

Jordan's King Abdullah is trying to get the Arabs lined up for peace. But they're all waiting for a sign from Obama.

Arab gays are under siege in societies that want to pretend they don't exist. But a new biography of an Arab artist offers another view.

It will take a lot more than SEALs and snipers to defend global shipping and American prestige. What Obama can learn from the French.

These days, NATO's future seems to be mired in the foothills of the Hindu Kush. With 70,000 troops on Afghan soil, and with the U.S. pressuring for an even greater commitment, "NATO is about Afghanistan and nothing else," says an official in Brussels.But the Afghan trap is stretching NATO so thin, it may prove incapable of handling problems in its own backyard.

King Abdullah, 85, is racing to reform Saudi Arabia. How much can he accomplish—and will it last?

The president revives French ambitions in the Gulf, with allies old and new.

David Cohen and the NYPD are pioneering a new way of fighting terrorism.

Until this year you could not be a 'self-employed' person. Such a status did not exist in French law. We changed that.

If they want help from Obama, Arabs in the Middle East should learn the lessons of Martin Luther King.

The Israeli government's media strategy barring reporters from Gaza is working, but the rest of its strategy is not.

How Paris is coping with its bistro smoking ban.

If the tragic axiom of Middle East peacemaking is that the Israelis and Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, there is now a new corollary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy never misses an opportunity to present himself as the opportunity.Last week, as Israeli tanks rolled through Gaza and the civilian death toll mounted into the hundreds, most Western leaders fell into paroxysms of procrastination.

Hamas, Hizbullah and Iran played the game of democracy better than the Bush administration. Can Obama change that?

Sarkozy is a loose cannon with no real opposition. So far, he's fared well. But that could change.

George W. Bush's neoconservative administration and Osama bin Laden's messianic terrorist organization may, in a perverse way, have deserved each other. But French scholar Gilles Kepel, in his new book, "Beyond Terror and Martyrdom," argues that the rest of us can do better than delusions of global democracy and the glories of suicide bombings.Braving inevitable charges that he's drawing moral equivalency, Kepel suggests that both Bush and bin Laden staked their claims to power on the...

The glitzy façade shows some cracks.

George W. Bush's neoconservative administration and Osama bin Laden's messianic terrorist organization may, in a perverse way, have deserved each other, argues French scholar Gilles Kepel.

The Obama campaign developed powerful Web tools that might shape government but are more likely to build opposition movements, revolutions and possibly terrorist cells.

When Barack Obama visited Paris on a tour of Europe last summer, he may have been surprised to discover that he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy had much in common, especially their status as outsiders.

Essay: As the world faces economic turmoil, cleaner energy can create jobs and reignite global growth.

The actress on her experiences in war-ravaged Congo, and the personal aftershocks of exposure to so much suffering.

Some of the world's most powerful leaders argue that this crisis is a call to speed up the creation of a new energy economy. Why they're right.

The former terrorist Bill Ayers may want to see McCain get elected.