Posted in Bahrain, Democracy, Egypt, Michele Dunne on Jan 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Michele Dunne President Bush’s January 16 stop in Egypt was so short that the press kept forgetting to mention it in discussing the schedule for his Middle East trip, noting that he would spend the last two days in Saudi Arabia. President Mubarak found an opportunity to zing Bush early in their joint press […]
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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