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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Diana Roy |Michelle Gavin |Lisa Anderson |Scott Atran
In a press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah in February, U.S. President Donald Trump touted his proposal that the United States should seize control of Gaza, empty it of its roughly two millionresidents, and redevelop the territory as a tourist area, a “Riviera of the Middle East.” Such a plan is a nonstarter among Arab countries. They perceive it as tantamount to accepting the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Jonathan Marc Gribetz |Lisa Anderson |Steven Cook |Christopher Phillips
In This Review In This Review Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the EnemyFrom 1965 until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Palestine Liberation Organization sponsored a research center housed in Beirut. The Israelis eventually seized the center’s library, only to return the collection in a prisoner exchange the following year, whereupon it seems to have disappeared during the PLO’s exile in North Africa.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Steven Cook |Lisa Anderson |Christopher Phillips |Arang Keshavarzian
In This Review In This Review The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle EastFrom his perch at the Council on Foreign Relations as a long-standing analyst of U.S. Middle East policy, Cook provides a bird’s-eye view of the origins of American involvement in the region during the Cold War and of the audacious aspirations unleashed by Washington’s apparent victory over Moscow.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Lisa Anderson |Christopher Phillips |Arang Keshavarzian
In This Review In This Review The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in EgyptAccording to the International Labor Organization, almost half of Egypt’s university graduates remain unemployed and looking for work more than two years after they complete their degree.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
pearsonlegal.co.uk | Lisa Anderson
Pothole injury compensation are on the increase Potholes are an ever persistent problem for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, all of whom can be injured and go on to claim compensation for their injuries, which range from minor falls to much more serious road traffic accidents. With an estimate that there are about six potholes per mile on council-controlled roads, it is a problem that is getting worse, according to a new report by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA).
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Nimah Mazaheri |Lisa Anderson |Andrew Hanna |Yasmine El Rashidi
In This Review In This Review Hydrocarbon Citizens: How Oil Transformed People and Politics in the Middle EastAnalysts have long attributed the autocracy that prevails in Middle Eastern oil-producing countries to an “authoritarian bargain”: in return for generous government-sponsored benefits, the people acquiesce to autocracy.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Ora Szekely |Lisa Anderson |Andrew Hanna |Nimah Mazaheri
In This Review In This Review Syria Divided: Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil WarIn this fascinating examination of the battles that began in 2011 in Syria, Szekely traces a proliferation of fighting forces and factions, each with its own narrative justifying participation in the war. As the Syrian regime and its opponents were joined on the battlefield by jihadist groups and Kurdish nationalists, the opposition itself fragmented, and foreign patrons grew more influential.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Andrew Hanna |Lisa Anderson |Yasmine El Rashidi |Nimah Mazaheri
In This Review In This Review 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee EntrepreneursSweetly inspirational and aiming to counter the dismal and often dismissive portrayal of refugees around the world, Hanna tells the stories of the small businesses founded by three women in Zaatari, the large Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Andrew Simon |Lisa Anderson |Andrew Hanna |Nimah Mazaheri
In This Review In This Review Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern EgyptFirst introduced in the 1960s, cassette tapes quickly outpaced vinyl records as the medium by which spoken words and music were recorded, distributed, and shared. Tapes flooded markets around the world, including Egypt’s, in the 1970s. As Simon shows in a book organized to evoke a cassette—the two halves of the volume are called Side A and Side B—the impact was dramatic and long lasting.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Yasmine El Rashidi |Lisa Anderson |Andrew Hanna |Nimah Mazaheri
In This Review In This Review Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of ChangeIn the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, a local hip-hop genre called mahraganat developed, appealing to—and expressing the frustrations of—the nearly two-thirds of 15-to-29-year-olds who are unemployed. Influenced by Western musical fashions, the performers were as varied as their American and European counterparts.
