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
Submissions from 2023
Regulating Change in Historic Cairo, Amina Abdel-Halim
Strategic Survival in Syria, Omar Abu Layla
Ukraine’s Economic Shocks in Egypt, Amr Adly and Omar Auf
We Downplayed the Signs of Peace, Then Downplayed the Signs of War, Yossi Alpher
The Future of Water in MENA is at Stake, Malak Altaeb
October 1973: Memoires of a Soldier and Scholar, Abdelmonem Said Aly
‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’, Geoffrey Aronson
Navigating R2P Between Norm and Practice, Omar Auf
The Ukraine War: The View from Iran, Hamidreza Azizi
Could the Future of Work be Green? Two Plot Twists, Ghada Barsoum
COP27 and the Sustainable City: Global Climate Solution or Mirage?, Patrick J. Bohlen
Inclusion and Implementation at COP27: Just the Beginning, Cairo Review
Timeline: Environmental Diplomacy from Rio to COP27, Cairo Review
Good to the Last Drop, Thomas L. Crisman and Zachary S. Winters
Democratizing International Relations, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota
Lessons from COP27: Between Progress and Challenges, Martha Delgado
Shifting Tides: Egypt’s Unexpected Path After the 1973 War, Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
Delivering the Palestinians to Israel: The Lasting Effects of the 1973 War on the Palestinian Question, Khaled Elgindy
Issue Brief (The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, 47), Noha El-Mikawy
Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question, Maryam El-Prince
1973—A Global Paradigm Shift, Nabil Fahmy
Failures of International Law and Violence in Gaza, Abigail Flynn
Fortune and Hazard for Algeria, Zine Labidine Ghebouli
A Bank of Actions: Making Good on Losses and Damages, Arunabha Gosh
Scouring for Meaning, and Hope, in the Rubble of Gaza, Karim Haggag and Firas Al-Atraqchi
COP27: Kick the Climate Can Down the Road Another Year, Peter Jacques
The 1973 War and its Aftermath: The View from Damascus, Murhaf Jouejati
Russia, Ukraine, and U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Daniel Kurtzer
United States Diplomacy and the 1973 War, Daniel Kurtzer
Book Review: The Hundred Years’ War, Daoud Kuttab
OPEC+ versus the United States and World Democracies, Giacomo Luciani
Miscalculations and Legacies: A Look Back at the 1973 War Half a Century On, David Makovsky
What Losing the Iran Deal Could Mean for the Region, Seyed Hossein Mousavian
COVID Vaccines for All?, Junaid Nabi
The 1973 October War and the Soviet Union, Vitaly Naumkin and Vasily Kuznetsov
Ringside Seat to Real-Time Radicalization, Lawrence Pintak
What if the October War Had Happened Differently?, William B. Quandt
When Consensus Is Reached, Miguel Ruiz Cabañas
Hearing the Global South in Climate Convos, Zeinab Shaker
Israel and the United States Did Not See the 1973 War Coming, Zaki Shalom
All Policy is Climate Policy, Jennie Stephens
Biden Aims to Contain Violence in Israel/Palestine. His Policy May Be Stoking It Instead, Shibley Telhami
Reflections on COP27: How Egypt and India Can Work Together, Sanjay Verma
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