Could Bernard Lewis have prevented the Yom Kippur war?
Tag: Egypt
Barbara Walters, impresario of peace
A celebrity journalist and the diplomacy of spectacle.
Nasser’s death, 50 years on
Did the death of Gamal Abdul Nasser change history? Reflections at the half-century mark.
Europe defeats Islam
Egypt occupied, the Ottoman Empire defeated. Islam scrapes bottom.
Emulating the West
Take a seat in my course on the modern Middle East. First up: Europe arrives.
35 years after the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty
Sadat and Begin were "incompatible." Perhaps, but they also had a lot in common, and it helped them reach peace.
Worst-case scenario in Egypt
Martin Kramer looks at Egypt in the aftermath of the Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt's presidential elections.
Shoddy and inaccurate?
The Muslim Brotherhood didn't have to vow to "kill all the Jews" at their November rally. They just had to quote one particular hadith, and they did.
October 1973: Panorama and myopia
The October 1973 "victory" is commemorated in Egypt and Syria with 360-degree "panorama" attractions. They show much less than 360 degrees of truth. A photo gallery with commentary by Martin Kramer.
From Bonaparte to Bush
Anne-Louis Girodet's painting 'Revolt in Cairo' (1810), in addition to its intrinsic merit, bears a contemporary message.
Tentacles in Sinai
The bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh again raise disturbing questions about the nexus of smuggling, Islamism, and terrorism in the Sinai. In summer 2004, when I was still editor of the Middle East Quarterly, I published an article by Maj. Gen. Doron Almog, who headed Israel's Southern Command from 2000 to 2003. Almog focused on the …
Ali Salem grounded
The other week, the Egyptian playwright Ali Salem was scheduled to come to Israel, to collect an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University. He's one of Egypt's most famous humorists, who's made bold to visit Israel time and again, and who wrote a best-selling book in Arabic about his first visit. After the Oslo agreement, he …
Egypt’s Authentic Ambassador
Ali Salem, the Egyptian playwright and humorist, is spending a couple of weeks at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, as its guest. Salem is famous for his allegorical plays and stories, which cleverly puncture the conventions of Egyptian and Arab politics. He is also a very funny man. Over the weekend, he regaled …
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