IMES in the News

• IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari co-authored an op-ed, “ Monetary Stalinism in Washington” in the Asia Times (October 11, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari co-authored an op-ed, “The mother of all golden parachutes” in the Asia Times (October 4, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was interviewed for "Political Situation in Iraq is a 'House of Cards', by the Council on Foreign Relations. (October 2, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was quoted in “Iraq Moving Toward Biden's Controversial Vision” The Boston Globe (Septmeber 21, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch co-authored “Iraq’s Political Transition after the Surge: Five Enduring Tensions and Ten Key Challenges” for the Center of American Progress in September 2008.

• IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari co-authored an op-ed, “Danger - Ben and Henry at work ” in the Asia Times (October 1, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari co-authored an op-ed, “Central Banks Need a Basel III” in the Asia Times (August 29, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari co-authored an op-ed, “Iran Economic Self-Mutilation” in the Asia Times (August 26, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was quoted in “Iraqis in Exile” The Washington Independent (August 15, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari authored “Fleeced in the Persian Gulf” Asia Times (August 12, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Christopher Kojm authored “Why Did Prime Minister Maliki Call for a Timeline?” Center for American Progress (August 5, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was quoted in “Maliki Comments a Blow to McCain” Washington Independent (July 22, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was quoted in “U.S. Needs to Switch into a Supportive Role in Iraq” Talk Radio News Service (July 21, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Hossein Askari was quoted in “Iran Bets on Pipelines to Export Gas to Europe” Gulf Times (July 20, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch  was quoted in “Just Under the East and One Stop Away” The American Prospect (July 10, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was quoted in “Iraq to U.S.: No Long-Term Deal Unless Timetable Set” red Orbit (July 9, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Kristen M. Lord  was quoted “Cull Pens Book on U.S. Public Diplomacy During the Cold War” USC Annenberg News (June 30, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was quoted in “US/Iraq: A Blueprint for Withdrawal,” IPS (June 25, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. was quoted in “Iraq SOFA Negotiations Loom Large,” Stars and Stripes (June 22, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Seyyed Hossein Nasr was quoted in “Big Name Professors: Celebrities in the Classroom,” GW Hatchet (June 13, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Iraqi Politicians Push for Withdrawl,” The Washington Independent (June 6, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe testified before a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia. See: “Iran’s Strategic Ambitions: Implications for Regional Security and U.S. Interests” (June 5, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Whose face to the World?,” International Herald Tribune (May 23, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Seyyed Hossein Nasr was quoted in “Religion to Team Up with Captain Planet,” Excalibur (May 23, 3008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was quoted in “Doha Commended on Lebanon Agreement,” The National (May 22, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Pressure for Iraq to Pay its Own Way,” Asia Times (May 9, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “US/Iraq: Pressure to Cut Costs, Troops Strain “Surge”,” IPS (May 7, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was quoted in “Al-Qaeda 2.0,” Menassat (May 7, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Seyyed Hossein Nasr was quoted in “Creatures Great and Small: Viewing Animal Suffering with Interfaith Eyes,” National Catholic Weekly (April 28, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Growing Pains for Al-Qaeda,” CBS News (April 24, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Steven Livingston was interviewed for “Professor Advises Government Leaders in Iraq,” The GW Hatchet (April 21, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Bernard Reich was interviewed for “Experts, Students Observe Israel’s 60th Anniversary,” The GW Hatchet (April 17, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was quoted in “Elliot School Honors Brubeck: Jazz Pianist Broke Cold War Boundaries,” The GW Hatchet (April 10, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was quoted in “Why Iraq Troop Drawdown is Likely to Stop in July,” Christian Science Monitor (April 7, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was quoted in “Saddam’s Files,” Newsweek (March 31, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “What is the U.S. Eng Game in Basra:,” World Politics Review (March 28, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was interviewed on News Hour with Jim Lehrer. See: "Al-Sadr’s Growing Influence,” (March 27, 2006).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Conditional Engagement,” CBS News (March 27, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. was interviewed in “Culture and Religion Differences are Wonderful Aspects of Human Life,” Yemen Times (March 17, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was quoted in “Report Details Saddam’s Terrorist Ties,” New York Sun (March 14, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Food for Thought,” CBS News (March 12, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was quoted in “The Army Monograph That Predicted Just About Everything That’s Happened in Iraq,” History News Network (March 10, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. analyzed the “profoundly important and yet troubled” relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States in his annual Kuwait Chair Lecture, delivered on March 5, 2008. Read the text of the lecture

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Attacking Al-Qaeda,” CBS News (February 25, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was quoted in "Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?,"The Nation (Feb. 21, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch’s blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in “Bush’s Marred Legacy in the Mideast,” Gulf News (February 19, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Shira Robinson was quoted in “Blue and Energized,” Washington Jewish Week (February 13, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Melani McAlister was quoted in “Panel Says Religious Vote Has Shifted Left,” The Daily Princetonian (February 11, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Melani McAlister participated in a panel entitled “Evangelicals and the 2008 Primaries” at the Princeton University (February 8, 2008).

• IMES Director Nathan Brown was interviewed on The Media Line (Audio clip).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was interviewed by CBS' Sunday Morning for a segment on the Arab press. See: "How The Arab Press Sees Bush Trip," CBS News: Sunday Morning. (Jan. 13, 2008).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch's blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in "Iran Looms Large in Bush's 11th Hour Tour," Inter Press Service (Jan. 10, 2008).

• IMES Director Nathan Brown was interviewed for "GOP Leader Calls For Revisions to Fatah Movement’s Outdated Charter," Jewish Daily Forward (Dec. 26, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Scheherazade S. Rehman was interviewed on the “Four Corners” news program Press TV (December 3, 2007). Listen here.

• IMES Faculty Associate Steven Livingston’s book “When the Press Fails. Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina” Oxford Journals in Winter 2007. Read here.

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was interviewed for "Fears grow of post-'surge' woes," Asia Times (Nov. 22, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch's blog, Abu Aardvark, was cited in "U.S.-Iraq: What Does the 'Good News' Really Mean?" Inter Press Service News Agency (Nov. 14, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward Gnehm was interviewed on the Diane Rehm show. See: "Foreign Service Work in Iraq" (Nov. 8, 2007).

• The 2007 IMES-DACOR conference was covered in "Analysis: The Iraqi 'frying pan,' Israeli-Palestinian 'fire'," Middle East Times (Oct. 29, 2007).

• The IMES inaugural event was covered in "Institute for Middle East Studies holds inaugural event," GW Hatchet (Oct. 25, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was interviewed for "Remember Iraq," New York Times (Oct. 24, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Steven Livingston’s When the Press Fails (2007) was reviewed in several news outlets, including The New York Review of Books. (Oct. 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Judith Yaphe was interviewed by Mother Jones. See: Interview with Judith Yaphe (October 18, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was interviewed for “In Egypt, A Son Is Readied for Succession,” Washington Post (Oct. 11, 2007).

• "Middle East center to open," GW Hatchet (Oct. 1, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Mohssen Esseesy was interviewed in “Semitic Languages Program Expand” The GW Hatchet (September 25, 2006).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was interviewed on NPR’s The World about the Sunni bloc’s withdrawal (Aug. 1, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Marc Lynch was interviewed by NPR’s Day to Day program for “Al-Qaida, Nationalist Insurgents Differ in Strategy” (July 12, 2007).

• IMES Director Nathan Brown was profiled in “Brown: Hamas, Fatah Likely to Reconcile Eventually” by the Council on Foreign Relations (July 11, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Jennifer Brinkerhoff chaired a session at the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Brussels (July 9, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Amb. Edward Gnehm was quoted in "Britons Unthreatened By Those With Different Religious Beliefs," Gallup News Service (July 5, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Steven Livingston discussed his new book "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina" with coauthors W. Lance Bennett and Regina G. Lawrence in Press Think (May 31, 2007).

• IMES Faculty Associate Sayyed Hossein Nasr was interviewed on “This is America” (March 15, 2006). Watch here.