Frederick Deknatel is the senior editor of World Politics Review. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The National (Abu Dhabi), and other publications.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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....
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 ...
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 ...
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....
Letter From Cairo
Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes....
