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...More than anywhere else in the Middle East, Iraq is a country emptied of democrats and democratic institutions, thanks to Saddam's quarter century of total repression. Gamal Abdel Gawad Soltan, of the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, sees the Iraqi army as Iraq's only credible unifying organization. "It is not in the heritage of Iraqi people to live together without having a strong central government," he explains. So is Saddam II on the way, courtesy of Uncle Sam? Few Iraqis will be thrilled...
This fall, just days before Paulin was originally slated to give the lecture, word of his allegedly anti-Israel comments to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram provoked a firestorm of campus controversy and caused English professors to cancel his invitation...
...signaled he will not repeat that cycle. In Egypt, officials are busy telling reporters that while President Hosni Mubarak opposes a war, he has absolutely no time for Saddam. In a scathing commentary headlined THE MADNESS OF BAGHDAD and written by editor Ibrahim Nafie, the government daily al-Ahram blamed future chaos in Iraq on the "megalomania of some in Baghdad...
...other event that brought scrutiny to the Summers-New pairing was the Paulin case. According to several professors in the English department, New learned about Paulin’s remarks to Al-Ahram at an economics department cocktail party she attended with Summers (a former professor in the department) and contacted her colleagues to inform them of the poet’s political past. “[Summers and New] were involved from the start,” says Watson, “and there was confusion between alerting and intervening...
According to Al-Ahram Weekly, the English-language edition of a leading Cairo newspaper, Paulin said in an interview that Israel as a state is “a historical obscenity...