For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in the author\"s home country of Lebanon. Was it always so? When did the extremism, intolerance and bloodletting of today displace the region\"s cultural promise and diversity?...

In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama\'s secretary of state, she set out to repair America\'s image around the world - and her own....