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-CompromiserI should have sent President Obama a present for his fiftieth birthday last week, but I |
Middle East
The Two-State SolutionTry to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at |
Middle East
Another Dead JournalistThe first email came on May 31 from London’s Pluto Press, saying that one of their |
Scandal
Strauss-Kahn: From Accused Rapist to Headline ThiefThey say no money was paid and no prisoners were exchanged. I’m not talking about |
Warshington
Slowly We TurnObama is pulling American troops out of Afghanistan. Or at least he says he is. He also |
Uncle Sam
Obama: Transparently OpaqueWhat’s going on with Barack “Open Government” Obama? His Justice Department has |
Education
Reading, Writing, and RupertThe Briterati, as I call Britain’s media pontificators on matters spiritual and |
Politics
Lame Horses and Crooked Jockeys: The Republican Nomination DerbyMitt Romney declared his intention last week to seek the Republican Party’s |
Media
Hang the Cyber-PiratesThe other night at the Hotel George V, the American Library in Paris held a fundraising |
Middle East Conflict
LikudniksYou have to love Likud, Israel’s governing party. Its politicians may not be as |
Rocket Science
Operation Enduring OperationMost versions of the Saint George legend tell us that when the great Christian slew the |
Terror!
An Expat Named SupermanThere were two huge stories last week in American mythmaking: The United States has |
Middle East
Leave Syria to the SyriansThis is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If |
Journalism
Photographers: The First Casualties of WarWhen journalists die in some foreign field, they die for you. Without them, your |
War
War: Still a RacketBarack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and “finish |
Israel
Goldstone’s Guide to GazaIt takes courage to confront Israel on the battlefield. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan’s |
Cultural Caviar
Let Us Now Praise Old Men(with apologies to James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 1941) In Paris |
Human Rights
An Open Letter to the US Secretary of Defense Robert GatesDear Dr. Gates, Your cautious appraisal of a proposed American military intervention |
Media
Murdoch the Media MonopolistEvidence is mounting that Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire conspired illegally |
Women
Women and Democracy in the Middle EastOne of Israel’s finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, “Just |
Public Nuisances
Ex-Politicians Shouldn’t TalkPoliticians, especially those who climbed to the top, should disappear when they leave |
Middle East
Spirit of 1848It began when Mohamed Bouazizi, a twenty-six-year-old fruit seller, set himself alight |
Commerce
Politicians and FreebiesFirst it was Tunisia’s Zein El Abidine Ben Ali. Then it was Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. |
Media
I Wish I Were in CairoIt is hard for an old hack like me to sit still when a big story is unfolding. Not so |
International Affairs
Egypt Surprises the West AgainMy old political philosophy teacher Professor Yusuf Ibish outlined the conditions he |
Over the Hill
Aging More Gracefully Than EnglandAs I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours |
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