Today's meeting reflected a party scrambling to adjust to a political world made new by the events in the Middle East.

If any year showed the difficulty of making predictions in the Middle East, it was 2011.

Of such stuff are quarrels made in the Middle East.

All three got the prizes for trying to make peace in the Middle East.

Brown says it is very difficult to make progress in the Middle East.

"We're not going to make a second Iran in the Middle East."

Obama is not really trying to make peace in the Middle East.

Recovering from a very bad flu, the four children and their family make a river trip in the Middle East.

But he never came to it to make peace in the Middle East.

Nevertheless, we cannot deny that some positive political progress has been made in the Middle East of late.