Posted in Culture, Philip Carl Salzman on Apr 7th, 2008 No Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman
“America’s current policies represent a fundamental departure from [America's] centuries-old tradition,” concludes Michael B. Oren in a recent op-ed. In previous interventions in the Middle East, “American military action was seen as an ancillary to—rather than as a substitute for—diplomacy. And in no case did U.S. troops remain on Middle Eastern [...]
Posted in Books, Culture, Philip Carl Salzman on Apr 2nd, 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. Philip Carl Salzman is professor of anthropology at McGill University and a member of MESH. His new book is Culture and Conflict in the Middle East.
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Culture, Islamism, Philip Carl Salzman on Mar 29th, 2008 No Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman
I would like to take up and elaborate somewhat Adam Garfinkle’s point (in a comment on an earlier post) about “a theologicalization of Islamic societies, defined as the process whereby the status of religion as a legitimate carrier of the public weal grows and the status of politics of a legitimate carrier [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Bernard Haykel, Culture, Egypt, Islam in West, Islamism, J. Scott Carpenter 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 Culture, Demography, Islam in West, Michael Reynolds, Turkey, Walter Laqueur on Feb 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Michael Reynolds
Despite all that is going on in the Middle East, what caught my eye recently are three items concerning western Europe. Each is very different, but all indicate that the question of the integration of Muslims into European societies will remain contentious for some time to come.
Posted in Culture, Iran, Israel, Stephen Peter Rosen, Terminology on Feb 20th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen
I am worried. Last year I did some historical research on the shifts in discourse within British, Japanese, and South African official elites prior to their use of biological weapons. In all these cases, including the deliberate distribution of small pox-infected blankets by the British in North America, the use of [...]
Posted in Barry Rubin, Bruce Jentleson, Charles Hill, Culture, Diplomacy, Israel on Feb 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
Elie Kedourie (1926-1992) was a rigorous interpreter of Middle Eastern history and contemporary affairs, famous for his penetrating style and principled conservatism. In 1970 he published an essay on “The Middle East and the Powers,” as the opening piece in a collected volume named after its most renowned article, The Chatham House Version. Below, we [...]
MESH Pointers Latest Iraq Latest Iran Latest Levant New York Times Washington Post NPR
Posts+Comments
Posts+Comments
