Syria Caught in the Middle

There is much talk about Syria becoming the stage for a new great-power proxy war. But as nations focus on how they can best assert themselves and secure their interests on the Syrian battlefield, unconscionable numbers of Syrian men, women, and children are living in terror. Imagine how it must feel to live under siege by your own government; and imagine how it must feel to know that the international community’s only interest in your plight is a selfish desire to accumulate power and sec...

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Ikhwanomics

In early February, a senior official of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood warned that without a global effort to save Egypt’s troubled economy, the largely peaceful revolution that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak could return, specter-like, as a calamitous “hunger revolution.” “The democratic transition in Egypt is hanging in the balance,” Khairat El-Shater—who is touted in the Egyptian press as the next Prime Minister—told The Washington Post. “We strongly advise the Americans ...

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