Audio recording from The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
Audio recording from Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Audio recording from Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Audio recording from Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Audio recording from Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
Audio recording from Stranger’s Notebook: Poems
Audio recording from Stranger’s Notebook: Poems
Audio recording from Stranger’s Notebook: Poems
Audio recording from Stranger’s Notebook: Poems
The Middle East Institute is pleased to host Egyptian journalist Ashraf
Khalil for a discussion of his new book, Liberation Square: Inside the
Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation, and the political
landscape in Egypt on the first anniversary of the revolution. This
book is the first account of the Tahrir Square uprisings from someone
who was on the ground and witnessed the protests firsthand. Ashraf
Khalil will analyze the status quo in Egypt today and reasons for both
Ten months after a young fruit seller set himself alight in a small, marginalized town in central Tunisia, his compatriots will be voting in what many are hoping will be the country’s first free and fair elections. In the poll set for October 23, Tunisians will be electing a national constituent assembly that will be charged with writing the rules of the new political era. That assembly will spend up to a year writing a new constitution and deciding which form of government the country will have.