Snow- and Middle East–themed reading for this weekend's winter storm.

Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed on December 18 issued a warning that Boko Haram is planning a spectacular kidnapping similar to the 2014 Chibok kidnapping. Mohammed said tha…

Said Shehata laments the lack of an effective opposition in Egypt’s largely Islamist-dominated political arena. Mahmood on Mahmood’s Den, reflecting on Bahraini police brutality, says that Bahrain’s…

Tribesmen pray at grave of Hayatullah Khan during his funural near Mir Ali in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on June 17, 2006 (Faisal Mahmood/Courtesy Reuters). In 2005, U.S. and P…

Syrian men living in Jordan shout slogans against Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad during a demonstration in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman (Muhammad Hamed/Courtesy Reuters) The Sandmonkey…