May be time to accentuate the positives in Egypt, Turkey
February 17, 2014 3 min. read

Last month I wrote about The Economist’s timely debate about how democracy is doing these days. For the final tally of the public vote, 69 percent agreed with me that concerns about the health of democracy are not overblown. Two chief concerns are Egypt and Turkey. In an op-ed last week for “Christian Science Monitor,” […]

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Art as Politics
November 7, 2013 3 min. read

It is not often that a rug becomes caught in the crosshairs of foreign policy and cast away from artistic appreciation, yet the 1920s Armenian orphan rug that was planned for display in December at the Smithsonian Museum suffers just this fate. Bound by the common thread of their identity as children and survivors of […]

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Upcoming Event
November 4, 2010 2 min. read

The Future of the U.S.-Turkey Relationship November 10, 2010, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Admission is free. RSVP to attend this event Panelists: Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Soner Cagaptay, Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy […]

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