Shadi Hamid
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Washington, D.C., DC, United States
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Past articles by Shadi:
Careful How You Bring Trump Down
There is no reason to celebrate the recent turn of events. This is a time to be nervous. → Read More
The Liberals Who Won’t Acknowledge the Crime Problem
Refusing to admit the gravity of the problem won’t make it go away. → Read More
Tunisia is sliding back into authoritarianism. Here’s what the U.S. should do.
The West has leverage. It's time to use it. → Read More
Putin Proves There Are Worse Things Than American Power
Blaming U.S. hegemony for global problems has been easy, but Putin’s invasion of Ukraine offers a preview of a much more dangerous world. → Read More
Race-Based Rationing of COVID Treatment Is Real—And Dangerous
The cultural left’s worldview is beginning to distort health policy. → Read More
Don’t Take the Narrow View of What’s Happening in Gaza
Wars and skirmishes don’t occur in a vacuum. → Read More
How Foreign Policy Factors for American Muslims in 2020
American Muslim voters' attention to U.S. policy failures in conflict zones has drawn them toward candidates promising bold alternatives. → Read More
China Is Trolling the World and Avoiding Blame
Beijing is successfully avoiding culpability for its role in spreading the coronavirus. → Read More
The Rise of Islamic Soft Power
Muslim governments, even relatively secular and progressive ones, have a powerful incentive to deploy "Islamic soft power." → Read More
Tunisia's tough lesson for Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman
What Tunisia, despite its flaws and its struggles, can still teach us. → Read More
The Roots of the Secular-Islamist Divide in Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser and Sayyid Qutb are usually remembered as two sides of Egypt's most intractable political divide. But in his book Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East, Fawaz Gerges shows that the two titans of Egyptian history overlapped ideologically and personally more than is generally realized. → Read More
What Democracies Can Learn From Malaysia
Sometimes the real promise of the system is simply the power to remove leaders. → Read More
Post-Liberalism, East and West
On debates about how to conceive of national identity and alternatives to liberalism, the West finds itself lagging behind the Middle East. → Read More
The Rise of Anti-Liberalism
Is a lack of meaning really worse than a lack of freedom? → Read More
Bari Weiss and the Left-Wing Infatuation With Taking Offense
Outrage mobs are chipping away at democracy, one meaningless debate at a time. → Read More
Educating Americans to defuse Islamaphobia
Garry Wills offers a sympathetic perspective on Islam. → Read More
The Political Thrill of Having an Enemy
Knowing what you’re against has a way of clarifying the mind and sharpening the focus. → Read More
Rabaa: The Massacre That Ended the Arab Spring
The story of the killing at Rabaa in Egypt is the story of a country that seemed intent on destroying itself. → Read More
The Burqini Debate's Irresolvable Tension
Liberals emphasize personal choice, but their conception of choice has its limits. → Read More
The Dilemma of the Burqini
Is there any right way to react to the swimwear? → Read More