Charles Glass
Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993. His books include Tribes with Flags (Atlantic Monthly Press,1990) and Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation (Penguin Press, 2010).
The Obamaverse
Obama: The Great Self-CompromiserAugust 10, 2011 I should have sent President Obama a present for his fiftieth birthday last |
Middle East
The Two-State SolutionJuly 19, 2011 Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, |
Middle East
Another Dead JournalistJuly 11, 2011 The first email came on May 31 from London’s Pluto Press, saying that one of |
Scandal
Strauss-Kahn: From Accused Rapist to Headline ThiefJuly 04, 2011 They say no money was paid and no prisoners were exchanged. I’m not talking |
Warshington
Slowly We TurnJune 27, 2011 Obama is pulling American troops out of Afghanistan. Or at least he says he is. |
Uncle Sam
Obama: Transparently OpaqueJune 19, 2011 What’s going on with Barack “Open Government” Obama? His Justice |
Education
Reading, Writing, and RupertJune 12, 2011 The Briterati, as I call Britain’s media pontificators on matters spiritual |
Politics
Lame Horses and Crooked Jockeys: The Republican Nomination DerbyJune 06, 2011 Mitt Romney declared his intention last week to seek the Republican Party’s |
Media
Hang the Cyber-PiratesMay 30, 2011 The other night at the Hotel George V, the American Library in Paris held a |
Middle East Conflict
LikudniksMay 23, 2011 You have to love Likud, Israel’s governing party. Its politicians may not be |
Rocket Science
Operation Enduring OperationMay 16, 2011 Most versions of the Saint George legend tell us that when the great Christian |
Terror!
An Expat Named SupermanMay 09, 2011 There were two huge stories last week in American mythmaking: The United States |
Middle East
Leave Syria to the SyriansMay 02, 2011 This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State |
Journalism
Photographers: The First Casualties of WarApril 25, 2011 When journalists die in some foreign field, they die for you. Without them, |
War
War: Still a RacketApril 18, 2011 Barack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and |
Israel
Goldstone’s Guide to GazaApril 11, 2011 It takes courage to confront Israel on the battlefield. Egypt, Syria, and |
Cultural Caviar
Let Us Now Praise Old MenMarch 28, 2011 (with apologies to James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, |
Human Rights
An Open Letter to the US Secretary of Defense Robert GatesMarch 21, 2011 Dear Dr. Gates, Your cautious appraisal of a proposed American military |
Media
Murdoch the Media MonopolistMarch 15, 2011 Evidence is mounting that Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire conspired |
Women
Women and Democracy in the Middle EastMarch 07, 2011 One of Israel’s finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, |
Public Nuisances
Ex-Politicians Shouldn’t TalkFebruary 28, 2011 Politicians, especially those who climbed to the top, should disappear when |
Middle East
Spirit of 1848February 21, 2011 It began when Mohamed Bouazizi, a twenty-six-year-old fruit seller, set himself |
Commerce
Politicians and FreebiesFebruary 14, 2011 First it was Tunisia’s Zein El Abidine Ben Ali. Then it was Egypt’s Hosni |
Media
I Wish I Were in CairoFebruary 07, 2011 It is hard for an old hack like me to sit still when a big story is unfolding. |
International Affairs
Egypt Surprises the West AgainJanuary 31, 2011 My old political philosophy teacher Professor Yusuf Ibish outlined the |
Over the Hill
Aging More Gracefully Than EnglandJanuary 24, 2011 As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the |