Matthew Levitt

Was the Taj Mahal built out of love ... or guilt?

June 26, 2014
Global Scan

The well-known story of the Taj Mahal is that a bereft emperor built it to honor his wife, who died in childbirth. But a new play in India suggests otherwise. In Brazil, some are analyzing the more prosaic plot lines that played out in Thursday's US-Germany World Cup match. And a young Jewish writer joins a gay pilgrimage to Israel, in today's Global Scan.

Was the Taj Mahal built out of love ... or guilt?

Hezbollah Comes Clean: It Stands With Syrian Government

May 2, 2013
Conflict & Justice
Hezbollah Comes Clean: It Stands With Syrian Government

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