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Spring 2015
Cairo Review No. 17
Resolving Conflicts
Q & A
Arab Peacemaker
Lakhdar Brahimi is the Middle East’s elder statesman. He speaks about the impact of colonialism, the rise of political Islam, and his life as a United Nations diplomat.
Essays
Egypt’s Leaderless Revolution
The January 25 Tahrir Square uprising raised high hopes for change after years of dictatorship. But the failure of revolutionaries to organize and unite doomed the prospects for democracy.
America’s Middle East Challenge
Washington’s foreign policy rests on shaky ground due to longstanding mistrust by Arabs and Iranians alike. To ease tensions and fight terrorism, the United States should support a new order based on cooperation among regional powers.
The United States and Palestine
Despite direct and continuous American diplomacy for decades, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has raged on and on. A Middle East scholar deconstructs seven decades of failed American policy.
After the Fall of Saigon
The Vietnam War lasted twenty years and cost the lives of more than two million Vietnamese and 58,000 U.S. troops. In the forty years since the Communist victory and American defeat, a surprising friendship has followed.
Bram Fischer’s Legacy
Nelson Mandela’s leadership steered South Africa to the end of apartheid rule. But the remarkable rapprochement between the races can be traced to Mandela’s friendship with an Afrikaner Nationalist who helped save the country.
#BlackLivesMatter
Conservative backlash against Barack Obama and continuing police brutality against blacks indicates the country’s legacy of slavery has not been overcome.
Constitutional Stories
Why are Canadians so ambivalent about the living conditions imposed on the country’s indigenous peoples, whose political communities survive despite being colonized and disempowered? A report from Turtle Island.
On the State of Nature
Hobbes saw life as nasty and brutish, while Rousseau argued humans lack inherent differences in power and strength. A better framework for understanding division in modern politics: Truth Politics versus Power Politics.
Midan
Schooling Egypt
The country faces an education crisis of what may well be historic proportions.
Oriental Hall, Etc.
Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo.
Media Policy and Freedom of Expression
Discussing “freedom of expression” in the same conversation with “media policy” may imply that they are mutually exclusive concepts, but that is a false premise.
Book Reviews
My Promised Land
A dehumanizing portrait of Palestinians from an Israeli Liberal.
World Order
Circling the globe with Henry Kissinger.
City of Lies
A study of love, sex, and death in Tehran.