Category: Middle East
Food Diplomacy – Cheeseburger Pizzas, Designer French Fries and a Post-war Cinnabon: Fast Food’s Booming Middle East Market
What few Americans knew is that the Arab World‘s love for Western-branded fast food is seemingly bottomless, to the extent that in the region’s wealthiest oil exporting countries, high-end fast food restaurants offering $US40 hamburgers and French fries can find a willing clientele. Even ubiquitous brands such as McDonald’s and Burger King can sell their […]
Is the World Too Easy on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Leaders?
Read Here – The Atlantic
The Monarchies Of The Middle East Have Managed, For The Most Part, To Weather The Turmoil That Has Brought Down Authoritarian Governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya And Now Threatens Syria’s Rulers. Why?
Debate – The staying power of Arab Monarchies Read Here – International Herald Tribune
Morsi’s Syria Plan Suggests Regional Approach to Foreign Affairs
Did President Obama watch Egypt swing from pivotal ally to potential opponent? Versions of that question have hovered around the presidential campaign from the early Republican primary debates through Mitt Romney’s comments on his recent trip to Israel about the Islamist electoral victories in the wake of the Arab spring. Read Here – New York Times
With the overthrow of Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq by a CIA-led and British-backed coup d’état on 19 August 1953, the landscape of Western involvement in the Middle East was forever changed.
Read Here – The Economics of Overthrow – Studies in Intelligence
Saudi students flock to US universities. Will that change anything?
Read Here – Gulf News
