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Can the Middle East sustain democracy?

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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A dated division of Egypt

Posted in Egypt, Geopolitics, Michele Dunne on Dec 12th, 2007 Comments Off on A dated division of Egypt

From Michele Dunne “Lines in the Sand” (Vanity Fair, January 2008, not online) describes an intellectual exercise in which four Middle East specialists (David Fromkin, Dennis Ross, Kenneth Pollack, and Daniel Byman) are asked to redraw boundaries to reflect the region’s actual social and cultural landscape as opposed to the political borders set largely by […]

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