Posted in Announcements, Michele Dunne on Sep 10th, 2008 Comments Off on Five years of ‘Arab Reform Bulletin’
From Michele Dunne Reform in the Arab world is not the flavor of the month in Washington that it was in 2003, but there is still a tremendous amount of activity in the region related to political, economic, and educational reform as well as human and civil rights. Today the Arab Reform Bulletin celebrates its […]
Posted in Announcements on Aug 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on MESH on Facebook
From MESH Admin Read this post if you’re on Facebook. Ignore it if you aren’t. We don’t want to be responsible for getting you started.
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Announcements, Barry Rubin, Bruce Jentleson, David Schenker, J. Scott Carpenter, Jacqueline Newmyer, Michael Rubin, Robert Satloff, Stephen Peter Rosen, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Aug 3rd, 2008 25 Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen Peter Rodman, a member of MESH, passed away on Saturday. I met Peter in 1980 in Santa Monica. I was very junior, he had already worked at the highest levels in government, and was just back from a long trip. But he immediately joined into a serious conversation and worked to […]
Posted in Announcements, Iran, Philip Carl Salzman on Jun 20th, 2008 Comments Off on Politics and Change among the Baluch in Iran
From Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer We are pleased to announce a new paper, the second in our Middle East Papers series. Philip Carl Salzman, professor of anthropology at McGill University and a member of MESH, offers an interpretation of what he calls “Islamic intensification” among the Baluch of southeastern Iran. Often it is […]
Posted in Announcements, Mark T. Clark, Philip Carl Salzman on May 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
From Mark T. Clark I am happy to report that the inaugural conference for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (AMESA) on April 25-26, 2008 went extremely well. The title of the conference was “Evolution of Islamic Politics, Philosophy and Culture in the Middle East and Africa: From Traditional Limits […]
Posted in Announcements, Israel, Walter Laqueur on Apr 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
From Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer Today is April Fools’ Day, and no day could be more auspicious for an exercise in counterfactual history. In that spirit, MESH is pleased to offer a new paper by MESH member Walter Laqueur, entitled Disraelia: A Counterfactual History, 1848-2008. Laqueur, whose many books include an acclaimed history […]
Posted in Announcements, Martin Kramer, Stephen Peter Rosen on Mar 26th, 2008 Comments Off on MESHNet is coming
From Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer From the inception of this public website, we imagined that it would have a companion forum for the exchange of ideas among persons with a professional interest in U.S. strategy and foreign policy. We call that companion MESHNet. MESHNet is a members-only message board, ideal for hosting open […]
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