Frederick Deknatel

Articles

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  What Would Reconstruction Really Mean in Syria?

  The Syrian War will eventually end. But the physical damage will last....

  Frederick DeknatelAug 6, 2019

  • Politics and Economics

  • Translation

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  Tearing the Historic Fabric: The Destruction of Yemen’s Cultural Heritage

  Frederick Deknatel reports on the disastrous impact of Saudi intervention on Yemen’s cultural heritage....

  Frederick DeknatelFeb 21, 2017

  • Art

  • Politics and Economics

  • Translation

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  Hope in the Ruins of Homs: Architecture and the Syrian Civil War

  Frederick Deknatel reviews “The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria” by Marwa al-Sabouni....

  Frederick DeknatelAug 17, 2016

  • Art

  • Politics and Economics

  • Translation

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  The Syria I Knew: On the Fall of the House of Assad

  THE FIFTEEN BRANCHES of Syria's intelligence apparatus, the mukhabarat, count some 50,000 to 70,000 full-time officers, along with hundreds of thousands of part-time personnel and informers. By 2011 it was estimated there was one intelligence officer for every 240 ...

  Frederick DeknatelJan 29, 2013
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  Obama’s Foreign Policy Crossroads

  WRITING IN THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS in 2008, Max Rodenbeck, the Economist’s Middle East correspondent, called veteran Washington Post reporter Robin Wright’s Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East “in many ways [&...

  Frederick DeknatelOct 22, 2012
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  2050 or Bust

  Cairo is a city often captured by stereotype: its unruly traffic, pollution, slums, decay, and general chaos, framed as an insult to the Pharaohs....

  Frederick DeknatelJan 18, 2012

  • Memoir

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  Letter From Cairo

  Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes....

  Frederick DeknatelDec 5, 2011