The authors examine the possibility that the extraordinary costs and destructiveness of the present Israeli-Palestinian conflict could demonstrate to all the urgent need for a path to a durable peace. The authors consider the history of this asymmetrical conflict; identify lessons from attempts to resolve other thorny conflicts; and set out a road map with […]
LOS ANGELES, Jan 25 – Wearing a respirator, goggles, gloves and white protective booties, Shaun Kearney gazed at his house in Sunset Mesa, a coastal community next to Pacific Palisades. It survived the fires destroying Los Angeles, but the weekend forecast is for a different problem: rain. Kearney needs to seal a hole in the […]
In the Middle East and North Africa region, water is truly life. For centuries, the region was renowned for its innovation in conserving water and delivering it to people. Think of the waterwheels of Hama in Syria, early irrigation dams in Yemen, and the medieval fountains and urban wells of Fez and Marrakesh in Morocco. Such […]
