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U.S.-Egypt Relations: It’s Time to Go
As many are now well aware, word came on Wednesday evening via a leak to CNN that the United States was cutting military aid to Egypt. After almost a day of furious speculation on Twitter and...
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Egypt: Reductio Ad Absurdum
Outsiders tend to underestimate the deep psychological impact that the last almost three years have had on Egyptians. Not long after the exhilaration of Mubarak’s exit, Egyptians confronted the...
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Turkey: Spies Like Us
I co-authored this piece with my friend and colleague, Michael Koplow, author of the blog Ottomans and Zionists. Ehud Barak’s political instincts have never been great, but his security instincts are...
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Red Star Over Cairo?
When I heard that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his colleague Sergei Shoigu, the defense minister, were to visit Cairo, I dusted off my copies of Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s The Sphinx and...
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Egypt: Anchors Away
Over the last week or so, there have been more than a few stinging indictments of U.S.-Middle East policy. Whether it is Iran’s nuclear program, the civil war in Syria, or Secretary of State John...
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Weekend Reading: Shubra Happenings, Lebanon’s Bombs, and America’s “Power...
Sofia Fenner and Mohammed Talaat explore how Morsi’s ouster is changing Shubra. Thanassis Cambanis isn’t too worried about Lebanon. Martin Kramer hopes for the perpetuation of American power, but...
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Why Suez Still Matters
The article below was originally published here on ForeignAffairs.com on Wednesday, December 4, 2013. The drive from Rafah, the Egyptian town that borders the Gaza Strip, down to Ismailiyya, a port on...
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Weekend Reading: America’s Quagmire?, an Egyptian Thanksgiving, and Foreign...
Ammar Abdulhamid looks at the consequences of U.S. inaction in Syria and elsewhere. Maged Atiya remembers his first Thanksgiving. Brian Whitaker on the underreported expulsion of foreign workers in...
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Egypt: Mockery
There is no shortage of advice in the United States about how the Obama administration should approach Egypt. The familiar ring of policy prescriptions bouncing around the Beltway and beyond is either...
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Egypt’s Gotta Have It: Spending Bill Ambivalence
Last week the Congress passed the omnibus spending bill for fiscal years 2014 and 2015. In one sense, this was very good news as it staves off a budget stalemate and another possible government...
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Grading Mearsheimer
When I was at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, I enrolled in a seminar on the revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe with Professor Michael Mandelbaum. The Soviet Union,...
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The Myth of Obama’s Failure in the Middle East
I wrote the following piece, which appeared here in Al Monitor yesterday with my friend, Michael Brooks. Michael is the host of the Intersection podcast on Aslan Media and a contributor for the...
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The Contest for Regional Leadership in the New Middle East
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) just published this report that I coauthored with Jacob Stokes, Bacevich fellow at CNAS, and my research associate Alexander Brock. “The Contest for...
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Washington Can’t Solve the Identity Crisis in Middle East Nations
I published the following piece in the Outlook section of Sunday’s Washington Post. I hope you find it interesting and useful! Yes, Nouri al-Maliki stubbornly refused to govern inclusively in Iraq....
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The New Arab Cold War
This article was originally published here on ForeignPolicy.com on Thursday, August 28, 2014. A bitter proxy war is being waged in the Middle East. It stretches from Iraq to Lebanon and reaches into...
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Assadomasochism
There is now no question that the United States is about to get a lot more involved in Iraq (and perhaps Syria) than President Obama had ever intended. So far, the administration has made it clear...
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ISIS and Us: No Way To Go To War
Washington is in an ISIS frenzy. Everywhere you turn, everything you read, every place you go, you can’t escape ISIS. Since James Foley was beheaded on August 19, everyone in and around the Beltway...
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Turkey And The United States: Death By A Thousand Slights
The relationship between the United States and Turkey has hit the skids. The controversy over Kobani has revealed deep fissures and deep mistrust between Washington and Ankara. It is true that...
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Making War In Iraq
It was sort of amazing back in August when President Barack Obama went before the White House press corps and publicly declared, “We don’t have a strategy yet” when it came to combating the Islamic...
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How To Get Egypt’s Generals Back On Our Side
This article was originally published here on ForeignPolicy.com on Monday, January 5, 2015. Almost as soon as the nasheed, a religious chant, begins, an improvised explosive device destroys a military...
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