Posted in Syria, Barry Rubin on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
From Barry Rubin
There was a great item on the Harry’s Place blog by the anonymous Davem who spent a long time in Syria studying Arabic. (If you haven’t read his long “Syria Diary” posted on the site some months ago, you have missed what is probably the best piece of first-hand reportage from that country […]
Posted in Michael Young, Peter W. Rodman, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jon Alterman, Iran on Apr 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Peter W. Rodman
The idea of splitting Syria from Iran seems like a no-brainer. This is the most important strategic argument that is often made for trying to improve the U.S. relationship with Syria. The idea has been around for a long time, however—25 years or so, in fact, since the Syrian-Iranian alliance took shape […]
Posted in Syria, Palestinians, Israel, Diplomacy, Books on Mar 24th, 2008 No Comments »
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel, is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public […]
Posted in Tamara Cofman Wittes, Syria, Lebanon, Palestinians, Israel, Iraq on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
In November 2002, the Chronicle of Higher Education asked a number of scholars this question: “What will the world be like five years after a war with Iraq?” To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, MESH asked all of the respondents to revisit their predictions. This week, MESH is posting the responses it […]
Posted in David Schenker, Barry Rubin, Syria, Michael Young, Andrew Exum, Lebanon, Israel, Jon Alterman, Hezbollah, Terrorism on Feb 13th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Andrew Exum
Imad Mughniyah is dead, killed in Damascus by a car bomb at the age of 45. Mughniyah was believed to have been Hezbollah’s chief of military operations, and his assassination marks the first time a major figure in the movement has been killed since secretary-general Abbas Musawi in 1992—an assassination which brought the […]
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