The Cairo Review of Global Affairs

The Cairo Review of Global Affairs is the quarterly journal of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at American University in Cairo (AUC). It is a focal point for policymakers, officials, academics, experts, journalists, students, and others in the Middle East region who follow global affairs. It is also a platform that gives perspectives from the region a voice in international policy conversations and debates.

The Cairo Review strives to be the premier global affairs and public policy journal in the Middle East. In print and online, it seeks to take its place among leading international journals distinguished by its Middle East accent. To that end, the Cairo Review aims to be a media organization from the region that maintains the highest professional standards and recruits top-notch writers to contribute to its vision.

  • Managing Editors: Firas Al-Atraqchi, Karim Haggag
  • Senior Editor: Nadeen Shaker
  • Deputy Senior Editor: Omar Auf
  • Associate Editor: Abigail Flynn
  • Contributing Editors: Sydney Wise, Leslie Cohen, Sean David Hobbs, Ariana Bennett

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Submissions from 2023

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Regulating Change in Historic Cairo, Amina Abdel-Halim

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Strategic Survival in Syria, Omar Abu Layla

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Ukraine’s Economic Shocks in Egypt, Amr Adly and Omar Auf

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We Downplayed the Signs of Peace, Then Downplayed the Signs of War, Yossi Alpher

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The Future of Water in MENA is at Stake, Malak Altaeb

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October 1973: Memoires of a Soldier and Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly

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‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson

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Navigating R2P Between Norm and Practice, Omar Auf

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The Ukraine War: The View from Iran, Hamidreza Azizi

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Could the Future of Work be Green? Two Plot Twists, Ghada Barsoum

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COP27 and the Sustainable City: Global Climate Solution or Mirage?, Patrick J. Bohlen

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Inclusion and Implementation at COP27: Just the Beginning, Cairo Review

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Timeline: Environmental Diplomacy from Rio to COP27, Cairo Review

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Good to the Last Drop, Thomas L. Crisman and Zachary S. Winters

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Democratizing International Relations, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota

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Lessons from COP27: Between Progress and Challenges, Martha Delgado

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Shifting Tides: Egypt’s Unexpected Path After the 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

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Delivering the Palestinians to Israel: The Lasting Effects of the 1973 War on the Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy

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Issue Brief (The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, 47), Noha El-Mikawy

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Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince

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1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy

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Failures of International Law and Violence in Gaza, Abigail Flynn

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Fortune and Hazard for Algeria, Zine Labidine Ghebouli

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A Bank of Actions: Making Good on Losses and Damages, Arunabha Gosh

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Scouring for Meaning, and Hope, in the Rubble of Gaza, Karim Haggag and Firas Al-Atraqchi

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COP27: Kick the Climate Can Down the Road Another Year, Peter Jacques

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The 1973 War and its Aftermath: The View from Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati

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Russia, Ukraine, and U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Daniel Kurtzer

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United States Diplomacy and the 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer

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Book Review: The Hundred Years’ War, Daoud Kuttab

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OPEC+ versus the United States and World Democracies, Giacomo Luciani

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Miscalculations and Legacies: A Look Back at the 1973 War Half a Century On, David Makovsky

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What Losing the Iran Deal Could Mean for the Region, Seyed Hossein Mousavian

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COVID Vaccines for All?, Junaid Nabi

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The 1973 October War and the Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin and Vasily Kuznetsov

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Ringside Seat to Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak

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What if the October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt

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When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas

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Hearing the Global South in Climate Convos, Zeinab Shaker

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Israel and the United States Did Not See the 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom

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All Policy is Climate Policy, Jennie Stephens

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Biden Aims to Contain Violence in Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami

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Reflections on COP27: How Egypt and India Can Work Together, Sanjay Verma

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The West’s Stigma, and Why it Loses Global Support by its Own Actions, Ayman Zaineldine

Submissions from 2022

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Muhamed H. Almaliky

Shifting Patterns of Arab Politics, Lisa Anderson

Arab Nationalism, Reionalism, and Regional Integration, Ibrahim Awad

From Political Islam to the Politics of Islam, Nathan Brown

Prepping for COP27, Thomas L. Crisman, David Dumke, and Zachary S. Winters

Celebrating Ten Years of the Cairo Review, Ahmad Dallal