Jewish immigrants and British authorities tried to sell electrification as a matter of business while Palestinian Arabs viewed it as a Zionist nation-building project.

Within the alienated and antagonist cultures inside Israel’s borders, Arabic and Hebrew—related, but mutually unintelligible languages—cross-fertilize each other.

Scholarship about Israeli settlement in occupied Palestinian territories provides historical context for recent violence in the region.

Leon Uris's bestselling book Exodus portrayed the founding of the state of Israel in terms many Americans could relate to.

Who is Bansky better serving with his artwork in Gaza? Those living on the bank itself or his personal brand?

Debut novelist Hala Alyan on how she researched her new, much-buzzed-about novel Salt Houses, with a little help from JSTOR.

The Sykes-Picot remade the Middle East for British and French control. A century later, their legacy is a disaster.