The New Middle East

Friday, November 29, 2024

Climate Migration and the Populist Threat to Europe

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Egyptian migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea The Climate Emergency is upon us. Extreme weather events, droughts, wildfires and rising se...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Saving American Democracy: The Most Consequential Election of our Lifetime!

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Has any presidential candidate in US history ever made such a threat? What makes a strong country? The unity of its people, their commitment...
Monday, September 30, 2024

How Benjamin Netanyahu and the Extremist Far Right are Leading Israel Along a Path to Ruin

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HAMAS' brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, shocked the world. With young people at a music festival shot in cold blood, members ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

How Jill Stein Poses a Threat to Palestinian Self-Determination and an American Post-Election Progressive Agenda

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Jill Stein as a 2015 gala dinner guest of Vladimir Putin Why is Jill Stein running for president of the United States? Why do we only see he...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Who will Best Serve American and Middle East Interests Following the US Presidential Elections?

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One of the most important issues which will confront the next US president is the political instability in the Middle East. Which candidate ...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

How Israel's Settler Movement is Creating a New Generation of Terrorist Youth

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Ma'ale Adumim - an illegal settlements in the occupiedWest Bank where settlers receive a variety of government subsidies  Much has been ...
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Eric Davis
Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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