"President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may be quite right about a new Middle East being born. In fact, their policies in support of the actions of their closest regional ally, Israel, have helped midwife the newborn. But it will not be exactly the baby they have longed for. For one thing, it will be neither secular nor friendly to the United States. For another, it is going to be a rough birth."
So writes Saad Eddin Ibrahim - an Egyptian democracy activist, professor of political sociology at the American University in Cairo, and chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies - in a piece in the Washington Post.
The writer's analysis of how things are shaping up in the Middle East should be read to get a handle on what appears to be an almost seismic shift in a variety of "things" in a region confronting a myriad of issues. Read the full Washington Post here.
So writes Saad Eddin Ibrahim - an Egyptian democracy activist, professor of political sociology at the American University in Cairo, and chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies - in a piece in the Washington Post.
The writer's analysis of how things are shaping up in the Middle East should be read to get a handle on what appears to be an almost seismic shift in a variety of "things" in a region confronting a myriad of issues. Read the full Washington Post here.
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