November 20, 2012

Drone Wars

Meet the Predator, the unmanned attack aircraft that is defining warfare in the post-Cold War era. Initially deemed useless by the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency, it has become America’s weapon of choice in the War on Terror. With the creation of a new military bureaucracy dependent on identifying and striking new enemies, will Predator missions ever end?

The Tahrir Forum
View from Washington
Steven A. Cook

When Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi declared it his “duty” to free Omar Abdel Rahman—the man behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center that killed six and injured one thousand—it was not a very auspicious beginning for relations between the United States and the ‘new’ Egypt. The U.S. Congress, particularly the delegation from the New York City area, expressed outrage.

Q&A
"I don't have a crystal ball"
Cairo Review

Nabil Elaraby, former Egyptian foreign minister and former judge of the International Court of Justice, became secretary general of the Arab League amid the Arab Spring upheavals in 2011. He speaks with Managing Editor Scott MacLeod about the political transition in Egypt, the bloodshed in Syria and the prospects for democracy in the Middle East.

Essay
Egypt in the World
Nabil Fahmy

The leadership and vision of Nasser and Sadat gave way to foreign policy stagnation under Mubarak. After the popular revolt, Egypt now has an opportunity to regain its place as a political and ideological wellspring for the Arab world. A blueprint for a strategic shift.

Essay
The Second Egyptian Republic
Tarek Osman

The January 25 revolution brought down the first, military-dominated Egyptian republic established after the 1952 officers’ coup. A new era of youth-driven dynamism has begun, pointing to a more open, efficient, and civic political system that should foster vigorous, healthy debate in the governing of the country.

The Tahrir Forum
Gaza 2020: A Looming, Avoidable Catastrophe
Robert Turner

The Tahrir Forum
Drafting Constitutions
Khaled Fahmy

Essay
Egypt, Israel, Palestine
Khaled Elgindy

What's New in the Gaza-Israel Battle

Rami G. Khouri

Islamists and the IMF

Farah Halime

Cairo Review

NewsLetter

Books
What to Learn—or Not—from Early Drafts of History
Issandr El Amrani

The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East. By Marc Lynch; The Invisible Arab: The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution. By Marwan Bishara; The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East. By Tariq Ramadan.

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