“Nothing gives your average bored Sunni bigot surfing the web more instant gratification than zooming in on sigeh to condemn the Shia… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Malaysia, then, offers an example of what happens when socalled moderate Islamists are appeased by the liberal elite. They provide cover for… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Egypt is now a deeply conservative country that, over the past two decades, has so pervasively succumbed to the Wahhabi customs promoted… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Kelantan, where it has ruled the longest, for instance, bizarrely has segregated supermarket checkout queues, which is unheard-of even in Saudi Arabia.… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The objection to the American empire is not that it is an empire per se, but that, arguably unlike that which was… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“So effective has their propaganda been that an American official was moved to describe the Brotherhood as “a loose network of secular… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Saudi Arabia, we should remember (as we turn to Indonesia and southern Thailand), in addition to flooding postrevolutionary Egypt with cash and… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Gradual change is in principle, of course, a good idea, certainly in countries where a blatant disregard for civil liberties go hand… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“in retrospect Nasser's pan-Arabism seems to have given Arabs little to celebrate, it is certain nothing good can come from the Arab… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Egypt nevertheless remained socially liberal until the 1970s, when Nasser’s successor, Anwar Al-Sadat, brought the rank-and-file of the Muslim Brotherhood back from… — 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
