“Syria, there are clear red lines when it comes to politics and religion, but people’s personal habits are not considered part of… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“the way Islamism has infested the political system, again a warning for the Middle East. Perhaps the most striking example is the… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The government must rethink its strategy toward the Bedouin, or else those in the area who are armed will turn it into… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Clerics and senior government officials are promoting temporary marriage as a way to deal with the undeniable realities and to stem the… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“they were, it is now obvious, a tiny minority, who had neither the ruthless political skills nor the popular support they needed… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Government neglect and endemic poverty means that, aside from the constant hassle tourists must suffer from the legion of touts, many of… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“But in northern Sinai, there is hardly any tourism. Tourist villages built by the Egyptian government along the northern coast are effectively… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“A secularist but not an atheist, he used the example of the Prophet, who according to tradition did not fast in Ramadan… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The liberals, cowering under the banner of “humane interventionism,” are no less imperialistic than before. As they sit in America and Britain… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Government neglect and endemic poverty means that, aside from the constant hassle tourists must suffer from the legion of touts, many of… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“But if Nasser's gift to the Egyptians was their sense of pride, Mubarak's curse is to have created a cultural climate where the only… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“However, since the Syrian regime is even less transparent than the NGOs, we have no way of knowing that, either.” — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“After the attack, it was again the image of the country, rather than the well-being of those who had been caught up in the… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Because Islam is so tightly bound up with Acehnese exceptionalism, it has since the introduction of Islamic law become the territory’s version of political… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“After all, there is in more stable, developed countries like the United States and Britain a quantifiably more vicious culture of child abuse. A… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“After that fateful day of July 23, 1952, the "Paris Along the Nile," as Cairo was lovingly renamed by the foreigners who flocked to… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Mansour earned the nickname "Al-Turbiny," from the air-conditioned express trains linking Cairo with Egypt's second city Alexandria, whose roofs were the favored location for… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The situation is complicated, though, in a country like Tunisia, where sudden and dramatic change in favor of Western-style democracy at this juncture does… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Nothing gives your average bored Sunni bigot surfing the web more instant gratification than zooming in on sigeh to condemn the Shia as debauched… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“despite having a thriving gay prostitution scene, Damascus is unlike just about every other Middle Eastern city I have visited in not having any… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The Arab Spring has been a dismal failure. All indications are that what comes next will be significantly worse than what existed before, in… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“An investigative report by the BBC in July 2007 found that thousands of young Egyptian men try to enter Europe illegally every year. Sometimes… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
