For dinner? World domination
For some reason I find it really heartwarming that Bill and Hillary Clinton have exactly the same inane convesrations as Helen and I. Politico runs the transcript from an interview Secretary Clinton...
View ArticleThe first from Istanbul
After months of (sort of) planning and anticipating, Helen and I have finally arrived and begun settling ourselves in Istanbul. We’ve got a small but pleasant apartment in a hip and rapidly...
View ArticleEce Temelkuran on Turkey’s minority issues
There’s a fascinating and wide-ranging interview with Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran on the New Left Project‘s website. Temelkuran has written extensively on Turkey’s issues with minorities and a...
View ArticleHappy Police Day, Egypt!
Today Egyptians observe the national holiday Police Day. A year ago I was in Cairo and the day was marked by a day off from work and plenty of snide comments. I wrote about it for The Faster Times....
View Article#Jan25
I wasn’t in Egypt yesterday because I’m in Turkey, but I have been glued to Twitter, Facebook, my Gmail contacts list, and the media reports, trying to get a grasp on the situation and getting...
View ArticleWhat Americans should learn from Egypt
I have a new piece up on GOOD magazine about what Americans can learn about democracy from Egypt, namely that protests are a useful tool to push for change. You can read it here. I initially wrote this...
View ArticleRule of experts
Your money is safe here. With the Qadhafi regime dissolving in Tripoli and the revolutionary forces ready to take over the country, I keep thinking about a conversation I had in Istanbul six months ago...
View ArticleThoughts from Tahrir
I walked around Tahrir and the surrounding streets for a few hours tonight. I’ve visited a couple of times before in the past few days but haven’t been able to spend much time there, mostly because...
View Article“Drink the sea”
In an editorial today in Al-Masry Al-Youm, the editor-in-chief put forth his opinion about the recent controversy surrounding his censorship of the newspaper where I work, which is (confusingly) the...
View ArticleSully, Obama and Polanyi
A few months ago I was doing some reading for class about the Industrial Revolution and I saw a book on the reading list that I’d heard of before but couldn’t remember why. I took it down and read a...
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