Posted in Hezbollah, Lebanon, Matthew Levitt, United Kingdom on Mar 22nd, 2009 Comments Off on Hezbollah: narco-Islamism
From Matthew Levitt Earlier this month, the United Kingdom announced that it is reopening dialogue with the political wing of Hezbollah. Unlike the United States, the United Kingdom has only banned Hezbollah’s terrorist (External Security Organization) and military wings. The ban on the terrorist wing came in 2000, while the ban on the military wing […]
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From Philip Carl Salzman . [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/6MDklneATBI” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] . President Obama used the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, to reach out to the Iranian people and the government of the Islamic Republic, promising a new start and relations based on mutual respect. The President stressed the commonalities between Americans and […]
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Posted in Books, Iraq on Mar 20th, 2009 Comments Off on ‘Iraq: A Political History’
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. Adeed Dawisha is professor of political science at Miami University in Ohio. His new book is Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation. From Adeed Dawisha The […]
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Posted in Israel, Robert O. Freedman on Mar 16th, 2009 Comments Off on Netanyahu’s coalition problems
From Robert O. Freedman The Israeli elections, coming just a few weeks after a cease-fire ended the war between Israel and Hamas, appear to have raised more questions than they settled about the Israeli position in the Arab-Israeli peace process.
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Posted in Books, Demography, Economics on Mar 16th, 2009 Comments Off on ‘Arab Economies in the Twenty-First Century’
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. Paul Rivlin is senior fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies of Tel Aviv University. His new book is Arab Economies in the […]
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From Josef Joffe . [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/rGsHUfl9xEE ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] . It was high time that anti-Semitism would find something hipper than those dusty Protocols of the Elders of Zion, concocted sometime between 1895 and 1902 by Russian journalist Matvei Golovinski and then used by the pro-Tsarists to discredit reforms in Russia as a […]
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From Michele Dunne I am one of more than 140 scholars and experts to sign a letter to President Obama, released today (March 10), asking him to take seriously his inaugural statement that leaders who “cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent” are “on the wrong side of history.” The […]
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