Sidelining Egyptian Women after the Uprising

A century ago, more than a million people marched in streets across Europe on the first International Women’s Day. They called for an end to discrimination and for women to have the same rights as men to work, vote, and shape their countries’ futures. A...
No More Mr. Nice Autocracy

No More Mr. Nice Autocracy

Egyptian current events prove one point for good: Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, U.S. presidents wish their favored Arab states would forever remain nice, docile autocracies. Of course, the Obama administration protests loudly to the contrary....

Be Glad You’re Not Yemeni

World-class buildingsAren’t enoughTo bring a nationUp to snuff. Yemen is finally being thrust upon American consciousness. Little good can come of that. Until now, the Yemenis had been allowed to suffer in private desperation. That’s over. Their worst...

Dubai: Temple of Greed

Wealthy playground, By the sea; Never meant For you or me. You may be a bit hazy on the Persian Gulf. Basically that’s where a lot of the world’s oil comes from. The Gulf is a long, slim, shallow dead-end sea connected to the Indian Ocean by the...