Posted in Announcements, Robert Satloff on Mar 17th, 2008 Comments Off on Is your book worth $30k?
From Robert Satloff Attention all authors! If you have been toiling away in obscurity, frustrated that a Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East is in the Amazon top ten of Middle East books instead of your just-published masterpiece, then The Washington Institute has the answer: The Washington Institute Book Prize.
Posted in Iraq on Mar 16th, 2008 Comments Off on Feeling safe in Iraq
From MESH Admin This past Tuesday, the Department of Defense released its quarterly report to Congress, Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. The report documents the continuing decline in violence, but it also includes the results of a January Iraq-wide opinion poll, indicating a divergence of perception among Iraqis. Most Iraqis believe that while their […]
Posted in Michael Reynolds, Military, Steven A. Cook, Turkey on Mar 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Malik Mufti Turkey’s democracy has long rested on a delicate equilibrium between the guardians of the unitary secular-nationalist paradigm who dominate the civilian and military state bureaucracies on the one hand, and the populist politicians who appeal to the particularistic sub-identities of Turkey’s diverse civil society on the other. The proper functioning of this […]
Posted in Demography on Mar 14th, 2008 Comments Off on MENA population: 1950, now, 2050
From MESH Admin Last June, the Population Reference Bureau published Challenges and Opportunities—The Population of the Middle East and North Africa, a concise summary of demographic trends. This graph and table neatly summarize population growth since 1950, and also project growth to 2050, based on United Nations data.
Posted in Announcements, Mark T. Clark on Mar 12th, 2008 Comments Off on Please note: ASMEA
From Mark T. Clark As some of you may know, I am currently serving as president of a new, interdisciplinary academic association that promotes the highest standards of research and teaching in the fields of Middle Eastern studies, African studies and their related disciplines.
Posted in Afghanistan, Daniel Byman, Martin Kramer, Matthew Levitt, Qaeda, Terrorism on Mar 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Matthew Levitt Fifteen years from now, when classified documents produced today begin to be declassified, we will surely look back with some discomfort and see just how far off some of our judgments were when written in 2008. Such is the nature of intelligence assessments. What would be worse, however, would be for us […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Israel on Mar 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim During the eulogy of the eight slain students of the March 6 terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva school in West Jerusalem, highly-respected Rabbi Ya’akov Shapira made, for the average gentile, a rather elusive allusion regarding the attack: “The murderer did not want to kill these people in particular, but everyone living […]
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