Posted in Michael Reynolds, Robert Satloff, Michael Horowitz, Michael Young, Daniel Byman, Bernard Lewis, Steven A. Cook, Philip Carl Salzman, Assaf Moghadam, Walter Reich, Walter Laqueur, Raymond Ibrahim, Martin Kramer, Mark T. Clark, Adam Garfinkle, Josef Joffe, Tamara Cofman Wittes, J. Scott Carpenter, Books on Jul 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
With August fast approaching, MESH has asked its members to recommend a book for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.)
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Daniel Byman :: Yaroslav Trofimov’s The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s […]
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Posted in Harvey Sicherman, Robert Satloff, Michael Mandelbaum, Robert J. Lieber, Josef Joffe, J. Scott Carpenter, Martin Kramer, Walter Laqueur, Joshua Muravchik, Geopolitics on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
MESH marks the Fourth of July by asking this question: Is the American era in the Middle East over? The argument was first made by Richard Haass in an article published in 2006:
The American era in the Middle East… has ended…. It is one of history’s ironies that the first war in Iraq, a […]
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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 […]
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Charles Issawi (1916-2000) was a leading economic historian of the Middle East and an astute commentator on history, politics, and human nature. In 1956 he published an article on the foundations of democracy and their absence from the Middle East. Below, we reproduce a key passage from that article (in green, beneath Issawi’s photograph). In […]
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