Posted in Chuck Freilich, Steven A. Cook, David Schenker, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Egypt, Michele Dunne on Apr 9th, 2008 7 Comments »
From Steven A. Cook
For those too caught up in the drama of on-again, off-again Israeli-Palestinian talks, the Iraq and/or Iran debates, and Lebanon’s political paralysis to pay close attention, Egypt seems like the one part of the Middle East that is not teetering on the brink. The team that Husni (and Gamal) Mubarak put in […]
Posted in J. Scott Carpenter, Islam in West, Adam Garfinkle, Islamism, Egypt, Bernard Haykel, Culture on Mar 2nd, 2008 6 Comments »
From J. Scott Carpenter
As early as this weekend, Geert Wilders, controversial Dutch politician and vocal critic of Islam, will release his new film, Fitna, on the internet. Fitna, which in Arabic means “dissension,” promises to be even more inflammatory in Muslim-majority countries than the Danish cartoons that sparked riots in many capitals in 2006. According […]
Posted in Jordan, Palestinians, Israel, Egypt, Matthew Levitt on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
From Matthew Levitt
This past week’s news placed Hamas in the spotlight, with press coverage of key Hamas activity in the West Bank, Egypt and Jordan. While Hamas suffered significant setbacks at the hands of Israeli and Jordanian authorities, the group fared much better in Egypt.
Posted in David Schenker, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinians, Egypt, Israel, Geopolitics on Jan 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
From MESH Admin
At last week’s Herzliya Conference, Tel Aviv University geographer Gideon Biger presented a futuristic plan for land swaps and border alterations among Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. Biger, author of The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947, proposes a map based on 1967—that is, each party would end up with the same […]
Posted in Palestinians, Steven A. Cook, Israel, Egypt, Martin Kramer, Geopolitics on Jan 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Martin Kramer
“This may be a blessing in disguise.” This is how an unnamed Israeli official greeted the destruction by Hamas of a chunk of the border barrier separating Gaza from Egypt, followed by an unregulated flood of hundreds of thousands of Gazan Palestinians across the border into Egypt. “Some people in the Defense Ministry, […]
Posted in Bahrain, Egypt, Michele Dunne, Democracy on Jan 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Michele Dunne
President Bush’s January 16 stop in Egypt was so short that the press kept forgetting to mention it in discussing the schedule for his Middle East trip, noting that he would spend the last two days in Saudi Arabia. President Mubarak found an opportunity to zing Bush early in their joint press conference, […]
Posted in Egypt, Michele Dunne, Geopolitics on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
From Michele Dunne
“Lines in the Sand” (Vanity Fair, January 2008, not online) describes an intellectual exercise in which four Middle East specialists (David Fromkin, Dennis Ross, Kenneth Pollack, and Daniel Byman) are asked to redraw boundaries to reflect the region’s actual social and cultural landscape as opposed to the political borders set largely by European […]
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