I write this blog post as I sit in a Starbucks Cafe, three blocks from my faculty office. The small space is jam-packed with...
Tags: Austin, Benghazi, bomb, bomb threat, Egypt, Embassy, Libya, Middle East, Muslim, Muslim protests, University of Texas
The death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is the death of a Middle East generation that dominated the decades after the...
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The Middle East has entered a period of rapid change. Two long-standing dictatorships, in Egypt and Tunisia, have collapsed...
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The resignation of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak marks a major turning point in the Middle East. His thirty-year rule provided...
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The protests that have shaken the Egyptian government in recent days raise some of the most enduring questions for observers....
Tags: Cairo, democracy, Egypt, expectations, fears, foreign policy, government change, Iran, Lebanon, Middle East, Mubarak, protest, repression, Tunisia
We have been here before. Think of other late August and early September days in recent years past — 1990, 2001, 2008....
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Vice President Joseph Biden’s visit to Israel last week was a strategic disaster — a strategic disaster of Israel’s...
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I can still remember the day twenty years ago when the South African government released Nelson Mandela from his 27-year...
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More than anywhere else, the future of the Middle East will be decided in Iran. This dynamic and resource-rich society sits...
