Posted in Chuck Freilich, David Schenker, Egypt, Michele Dunne, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes 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 […]
Posted in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Mar 19th, 2008 Comments Off on Iraq, Israel, Arabs: weak linkage
In November 2002, the Chronicle of Higher Education asked a number of scholars this question: “What will the world be like five years after a war with Iraq?” To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, MESH asked all of the respondents to revisit their predictions. This week, MESH is posting the responses it […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Public Diplomacy, Qatar, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Feb 17th, 2008 Comments Off on Arabs for Obama?
From Tamara Cofman Wittes I’m in Doha for the 5th Annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum—my fourth year at this annual confab (organized by my fine colleagues in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution) that brings together Americans with Muslims from Nigeria to Malaysia and everywhere in between. This year we’ve included […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Democracy, J. Scott Carpenter, Jon Alterman, Joshua Muravchik, Michele Dunne, Tamara Cofman Wittes 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 […]
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