It’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules… Continue reading
Michael Hirsh has responded to my critique of his article. Amazingly, yet typical of our era, he didn’t engage with a single—not a single—idea I presented… Continue reading
Since then, America’s enemies have made great progress; the Obama Administration almost none at all… Continue reading
Egypt will hold its presidential election May 23-24 with a possible run-off on June 16-17. It is impossible at this point to predict what’s going to happen but I can make a good guess… Continue reading
Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading
Since there is so much bad policy on the Middle East to critique and since there’s no hope of the Obama Administration listening to alternative strategies… Continue reading
After his release from prison in March 2011, the Deputy Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al-Shater was reportedly tasked by the Brotherhood’s Guidance Council to perform a comprehensive review… Continue reading
Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward… Continue reading
Over the next several decades it gradually established itself in other European countries and became responsible for the spread of radical Islam in the West… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood branch in Tunisia is relatively new. It was established in the 1970s by… Continue reading
The Movement for Unity and Reform (MUR), affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Morocco, was founded in 1996… Continue reading
In Lebanon the Muslim Brotherhood works through Al-Jama’ah al-Islamiyya, an organization established in 1964… Continue reading
Qatar became a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold in 1954, when a group of its activists found refuge there… Continue reading
The first Muslim Brotherhood activists came to Saudi Arabia in the first half of the 1950s… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan has a strong social, organizational and political foundation… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood apparently began its operations in Algeria in the 1940s… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, whose members are both trans-Jordanian and Palestinian in origin, is the main opposition in the country… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood was established in Syria in 1945 by disciples of Hassan al-Banna. At first it focused on educational and societal activities… Continue reading
Following the uprisings in the Arab world and since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime, the status of the Muslim Brotherhood has risen significantly both in Egypt and with the international community… Continue reading
Now the initial euphoria about the Arab revolts has subsided, it’s clear the ‘Arab Spring’ will not bring a liberal, secular, Western (or Islamic) model of democracy to the Arab world… Continue reading
A year ago we were told that Egypt was going to become a moderate democratic state ruled by hip Facebook kids. Now Egypt is going to become a moderate Islamist republic ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
Authoritarian regimes have traditionally been disinclined to accept any political or social opposition and have been hostile to the development of an independent civil society that could form a counterweight to state power… Continue reading
As the high hopes for a brave new Middle East fade rapidly, Western policymakers must recognize that promoting market economics and its inevitable cultural changes are far more critical to the region’s well-being than encouraging free elections or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict… Continue reading
The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start… Continue reading
Registering to run for president of Egypt will begin March 10. The military moved it up from April 15 to show that it is handing over power to the civilians… Continue reading
2012 appears to be unfolding as the “year of dhimmitude” for Egypt’s Christians… Continue reading
There’s a serious split in Hamas reflecting the growing civil war among Islamists along Sunni-Shia lines… Continue reading
Since we can’t get good coverage of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the Western media, it’s necessary to turn to the Islamists’ intended victims — Arab liberals — to get a better picture… Continue reading
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading
Diehl’s challenge to the critics of the mainstream thinking on the Middle East is very serious… Continue reading
We’re starting to get a good picture of what the lower house of Egypt’s parliament will be like… Continue reading
I ran into an older, retired Israeli colleague who is a fine scholar in his field and agreed to have coffee in a nearby Tel Aviv cafe. In the ensuing conversation I learned some key things about why current intellectual and political discussion is such a wreck… Continue reading
The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras… Continue reading
The region-wide upheaval known as “the Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims… Continue reading
In a time when Western intellectuals, politicians, and journalists are trying to explain that the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a radical Islamist group… Continue reading
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