Writer and civil rights lawyer Alia Malek tells the story of modern America through the eyes of old-school Arab-Americans and new-wave immigrants.

Mideast scholar and Obama adviser Vali Nasr says a new middle class is finally changing the Muslim world — and the U.S. needs to catch up.

In our first hour today, we reached out to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and spoke with Ambassador Christopher Hill. He discussed everything from Prime Minister Maliki’s recent political “dating game” to the “elusive concept” of having firm political rules in Iraq.

U.S. troops have left Iraqi cities, and the big withdrawal is in motion. But the security situation remains fragile. We’ll check in with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill and top journalists.

Health care maneuvers in Washington. Diplomacy in the Middle East. And a White House beer summit. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Award-winning journalist Paul McGeough on how the failed assassination of one Hamas leader changed the course of Mideast politics.

Iran, nuclear weapons, and the Middle East. Is it never going to happen? Or is the US ready to accept, and put up what Hillary Clinton calls a “defense umbrella”?

We’ll look at the crisis in Iran and the big waves it’s creating, from the Middle East to the White House situation room.

Iran votes in a charged election. We turn to Tehran to examine the aftermath.

Obama in Egypt. GM in bankruptcy. And a French airliner goes down. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets President Obama this week. We’ll look ahead with scholars Juan Cole and Rashid Khalidi.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Obama. Two countries, two new leaders, two agendas. We’ll look at what’s next for the U.S. and Israel.

Hash farmers, sex therapists, young bloggers. We’ll go behind the scenes in the Middle East with New York Times correspondent Neil MacFarquhar.

A Palestinian doctor from Gaza lost three daughters when Israel invaded, and still wants to talk peace. We’ll talk with him.

President Obama speaks in Turkey, and reaches out to the Muslim world. We’ll hear reactions from across the region.

Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command until last year, gives us his read on threats, and opportunities, now in the Middle East and beyond.

Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. analysts on what’s next for Gaza — and the Middle East.

With Senator Obama in Middle East, we look at what a President Obama’s real options would be in the tough terrain from Israel to Islamabad.

Through nearly 20 years of wild ups and downs, Aaron David Miller was in the middle of American efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace in the Middle East. He saw the good, the bad, and the ugly of our efforts, and theirs.
Now he’s out of the bubble, and talking. Very frankly. About how Americans have lost [...]

As a zone of American military interest, US Central Command is as critical as they come. It stretches from the hot zones of Pakistan and Afghanistan, across Iraq and the Middle East to the Horn of Africa.
Right now it has two live wars going on, talk of a third with Iran, and tremendous questions of [...]