Helena Cobban

Helena Cobban has written about (and often from) the Middle East since 1975. She writes a column on global affairs for the Christian Science Monitor, essays for Boston Review, and has published six books on international issues.

Her personal blog is Just World News. She is a Friend in Washington for the Friends Committee on National Legislation, and thinks she may be the only Quaker who's also a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Currently

  • Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran

    October 14, 2009

    Tom Dine, for thirteen years head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations.

  • The Palestinian Paradox

    May 6, 2009 Subscribe

    The surest path to statehood and lasting peace with Israel is engagement with Hamas.

  • After Gaza: Jerusalem?

    March 25, 2009

    Reclaiming Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem looks to be new frontier for Israeli expansionism.

2007

  • Facing Hamas and Hezbollah

    November 1, 2007 Subscribe

    US diplomacy in the Middle East has been held hostage by a refusal to engage with these two popular movements.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
16 Comments
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
76 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
69 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
61 Comments