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 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 J. Scott Carpenter, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Joshua Muravchik, Adam Garfinkle, Michele Dunne, Jon Alterman, Democracy on Jan 2nd, 2008 7 Comments »
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 […]
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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