The Cairo Review of Global Affairs

Donald Trump at
Trump Tower, New
York, Aug. 14, 2015.
Andrew Hetherington/
Redux

The Meaning of Trump

Donald Trump’s anti-establishment campaign confounded the Republican Party, foreign policy experts, and the news media. His mobilization of an angry electorate has reshaped the contours of American politics for years to come.

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The Trump presidency will only add more uncertainty to this wild picture, for several reasons that we can identify today.

Trump’s Wild Middle East

By Rami G. Khouri

November 16, 2016 in Tahrir Forum

Egyptians scramble to buy government subsidized sugar in Cairo, Oct. 14, 2016. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Arab Reform and Revolt

By Tarek Osman

November 17, 2016 in Tahrir Forum

Iranian Foreign Minister Javid Zarif shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Vienna, July 14, 2015. U.S. Department of State

Donald Trump’s Art of the Iran Deal

By Holly Dagres

November 4, 2016 in Tahrir Forum

President Barack Obama,
Oval Office of the White
House, Washington, DC,
Sept. 9, 2010. Pete Souza/
The White House

Barack Obama’s Presidency

By James T. Kloppenberg

Fall 2016 in Essays

President Vladimir Putin
at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, Moscow, Feb. 23,
2016. Dmitry Azarov/
Kommersant/Getty Images

Unraveling in the Kremlin

By Lilia Shevtsova

Fall 2016 in Essays

Judith Butler, Paris, Nov. 6, 2013. Lea Crespi/LUZ/Redux

Global Trouble

By Scott MacLeod

Fall 2016 in Q & A

Unemployed graduates protest in Tunis, April 9, 2016. Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters

Tunisia’s Unsteady Progress

By Francis Ghilès
in Tahrir Forum

Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif after
voting in local
government elections,
Lahore, Oct. 31, 2015.
Mohsin Raza/Reuters

Pakistan’s Democratic Opportunity

By Madiha Afzal
in Essays

U.S. Navy Seals and
Polish special forces,
Umm-Qasr, Iraq, March
23, 2003. Desmond
Boylan/Reuters

America’s Misadventures in the Middle East

By Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
in Essays

epa05267840 Yazidis gather at the shrine of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir to celebrate their new year with the lighting of candles in Lalish, north of Mosul, Iraq, 19 April 2016. Iraq has the biggest population of Yazidis worldwide with Lalish being their principal holy site. EPA/ANDREA DICENZO

The Yazidi Genocide

By The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
in Essays

Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 22, 2016. Gage Skidmore/Wikicommons

Trump: Using Ahmadinejad’s Playbook

By Reza Marashi
in Tahrir Forum

Hillary Clinton at the
Washington Convention
Center, Washington, DC,
Sept. 17, 2016. Mark
Wilson/Getty Images

Hillary Clinton’s Imperial Feminism

By Zillah Eisenstein
in Essays

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