Of the two Cornell undergraduate students studying abroad in Israel this semester, one was forced to seek shelter during an air raid last week and the other has been relocated to a city further from the Gaza Strip, a site that has been the target of Israeli missile strikes.

As Israelis and Gazans fire missiles at each other in the Middle East, hundreds of Cornellians took to Ho Plaza Monday for dueling demonstrations in support of each side of the conflict, bringing with them flags, chants and barbs of their own. 

Rehan Dadi '15 find hope amidst confusion in Egyptian-Lebanese artist Lara Baladi's work. At her Aug. 27 sponsored by Cornell's Art Department, Baladi spoke about how her work has been affected by the Arab Spring, which erupted in 2010

Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, the East Africa bureau chief at The New York Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting Monday.

Maggie Henry '14 discusses the growing opposition movement in Syria, and to what extent outside powers should intervene.

Student groups respond to Palestinian officials' recent bid for United Nations membership by holding public discussions on campus.

Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN’s GPS and editor-at-large of TIME magazine, spoke to more than 700 Cornell students and political observers Monday in a lecture titled “The Rise of the Rest: The Post-American World."