Category: Blogs

Amr El Salanekly: The Smartest Kid in the Room [Faces of Egypt]

By Soraya Morayef

At twenty-two, Amr El Salanekly has won the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative fellowship, co-founded a social incubator and an educational platform for underprivileged kids, turned down a job with Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank, and raised hundreds of thousands of Egyptian pounds for community projects in Egypt, while completing his bachelor’s degree at […]

Video of allegedly Iranian UAVs captured by Syrian rebel

By Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room

Hadley: US should provide Syrian opposition with ‘antitank and antiaircraft weapons’

By Stephen J. Hadley, the Washington Post

From Stephen J. Hadley, the Washington Post:  What began as a peaceful civil resistance is increasingly degenerating into a sectarian war between Syria’s Sunnis and its Alawite Shiites that will almost surely spread beyond its borders.

The Case for a European Defence Review

By Jorge Benitez

From Marcel Dickow, Hilmar Linnenkamp, and Christian Mölling, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik:  What the EU needs now is a broad assess-ment of the existing national capabilities with regard to their potential for the cre-ation of joint European capabilities – the European Defence Review (EDR).

North Korean Makeover: Reminiscent of Post-Mao China

Radical changes are taking place in North Korea. It’s been seven months since the state commissioned new leader Kim Jong-Un, and now the Supreme Leader is challenging military control, exposing the Kim family to the public, and reassessing North Korea’s economic strategy and its approach to external cultural influences. We may be seeing the beginnings […]

Diplomacy Is the Best Tool for Iran

By R. Nicholas Burns

Are we are on a collision course to war with Iran? With negotiations flagging, sanctions inconclusive, and an intransigent Iran speeding boldly ahead with its nuclear enrichment program, the US government appears determined to stop Iran one way or another. My Harvard colleague, Graham Allison, calls it “a Cuban missile crisis in slow motion.” Iran […]

Top News: The Supreme Constitutional Court Rejects Mekki Proposal to Unify the Judicial Bodies

By Egypt Source

A judicial source at the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) rejected the idea of merging judicial bodies coupled with the abolition of the SCC, asserting that this is not permissible in any way and that each competent body considers the issues that fit its mandate. The source added that the SCC has the duty to interpret […]

Turkey’s defense market worth $14 billion

By UPI

From UPI:  A recent report has valued the Turkish defense industry market at $14 billion.

Review: Bradley Hope’s Last Days of the Pharaoh Paints a Human Picture of Mubarak

By Nancy Messieh

The first thought that comes to mind when reading Bradley Hope’s Last Days of the Pharaoh is that Hosni Mubarak is a human being. Over the past year and a half, this is a fact that has become all too easy to forget. We see him only as the tyrant, so full of arrogant pride […]