By Joel B. Pollak
Joel B. Pollak ’99 is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Cape Town. He was a political speechwriter for the Leader of the Opposition in South Africa from 2002 to 2006 and is a second-year student at Harvard Law School.
It still has no formal constitution. Its borders are contested [...]
Archive for July, 2008
ISRAEL’S INCOMPLETE JOURNEY
Posted in Focus on Israel at 60, Reflections, tagged attack, constitution, Israel, Palestinian, state, violence on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ISRAEL’S SEARCH FOR A CONSTITUTION
Posted in Focus on Israel at 60, Politics, tagged constitution, Israel, Law on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Asher A. Fredman
Asher A. Fredman ‘08, a Government concentrator from Leverett House, graduates from Harvard College this year. This essay is based on his senior thesis.
As it enters its sixtieth year, the modern State of Israel continues to be one of the few democracies in the world without a written, formal constitution. The Declaration [...]
ISRAEL AND ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION
Posted in Economics, Focus on Israel at 60, Politics, tagged army, bank, economy, growth, IDF, Israel, military, reform on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Gabriel M. Scheinmann
Gabriel M. Scheinmann ‘08, a Government concentrator from Eliot House, graduates from Harvard this year.
In sharp contrast to the rest of the Middle East, Israel has experienced unprecedented economic growth and has even outperformed much of the developing world, based on multiple financial indicators. According to the International Monetary Fund World [...]
DID GOLDA MEIR CAUSE THE “YOM KIPPUR WAR”?
Posted in History, Politics, tagged Egypt, Golda Meir, Israel, Jordan, Russia, US, USSR, war, Yom Kippur War on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Professor Jack L. Schwartzwald
Jack L. Schwartzwald, MD, is an Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Medicine at Brown University School of Medicine.
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“…Sadat offered Golda Meir an interim deal for opening the Suez Canal in return for a partial Israeli pullback in the Sinai, which she rejected, making the 1973 War inevitable.” – Ehud Ya’ari, The Jerusalem [...]
CONTRACEPTION IN EGYPT AND IRAN
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged birth control, contraception, Egypt, Iran, women on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Julie R. S. Fogarty
Julie R. S. Fogarty ’08, a Government concentrator from Dunster House, graduates from Harvard College this year.
The Greater Middle East has one of the highest population growth rates in the world, lower only than that in sub-Saharan Africa. [1] The regional rate has continued to accelerate over the past 60 years, [...]
CANON ANDREW WHITE: THE VICAR OF BAGHDAD
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Hope A. Jones
Hope A. Jones ’08, a Government concentrator from Leverett House, graduates from Harvard College this year.
Ravaged by three wars in the last thirty years, Iraq—to some—seems beyond salvation. Religious terrorists across the country pose a grave threat to the country’s future. Sectarian violence, once political or territorial in nature, has become increasingly [...]
IRAN’S SHORT-TERM NUCLEAR STRATEGY and RHETORIC
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Cindy D. Tan
Cindy D. Tan ’08, a History of Art and Architecture concentrator from Eliot House, graduates from Harvard College this year.
Iran’s April 8 announcement that it plans to install 6,000 centrifuges at its main enrichment site at Natanz comes without surprise given the regime’s flagrant posturing in recent years. After breaching its [...]
BEETHOVEN IN BAGHDAD
Posted in Interviews, tagged Baghdad, Iraq, music, orchestra, Zuhal Sultan on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interview with Zuhal Sultan
Zuhal Sultan, an Iraqi student who turns seventeen this year, is a talented young pianist who has played with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra and at musical events across the region. She lost both her parents over the past four years, one to illness and one to violence. She tells John H. [...]
SHARIA LAW, THEN AND NOW
Posted in Book Review, tagged caliph, Islam, Law, Noah Feldman, Ottoman, Sharia on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Danielle R. Sassoon
Danielle R. Sassoon ’08, a History concentrator from Leverett House, graduates from Harvard College this year.
NOAH FELDMAN, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman laments that “much analysis of the Muslim world insists on an [...]
BENAZIR BHUTTO’S VISION
Posted in Book Review, tagged Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, reconciliation on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Elizabeth K. Brook
Elizabeth K. Brook ’10 attends Harvard College and is a Literature concentrator in Adams House.
BENAZIR BHUTTO, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, New York: Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.
When Benazir Bhutto, the famous Radcliffe College graduate who twice served as Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated last December, she left behind a recently written [...]
