Founded in 1967 - Incorporated in 1972
A generation ago, Israeli and Egyptian leadership worked to lesson tensions in the volatile Middle East. Israel’s PM Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat back in the 1970s realized that “jaw-jaw” was better than “war-war” in Churchill’s words. Since then (with the exception of the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993) there has been a dearth [...]
In a little over six months, voters in both major American political parties will begin the official process of selecting their respective presidential nominees. Of course, the race for the White House in 2012 unofficially began on 5 November 2008 (the day after Barack Obama won his first term) and really picked up steam after [...]
It is a pleasure to join the SHAFR in-house blog. Before this inaugural posting I did what historians do and went to the archives, i.e. the older posts on the site. I was impressed by the thoughtful perspectives that other contributors (and the cross posts) brought to current events. It drove home how comparatively rare [...]