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United States' Troubles in the Mideast are Nothing New By Zachary Reid Published in Richmond Times-Dispatch February 25, 2007 Call of the Middle East By David A. Smith Published in The Washington Times February 25, 2007 U.S. History Shows There's No Substitute for Victory By Frank Beckmann Published in The Detroit News February 23, 2007 To the Shores of Tripoli By Judith Miller Published in The New York Sun February 14, 2007 In the Beginning, There Were U.S.-Mideast Tensions By Mike Francis Published in The Oregonian February 11, 2007 Intimate Strangers America's long dance with the Mideast dates all the way back to the Founding Fathers. Who knew? By Christopher Dickey Published in Newsweek February, 2007 East is East By Christopher Hitchens Published in The Atlantic online February, 2007 Back to Barbary pirates, missionaries. By Jack Fischel Published in The Philadelphia Inquirer February 6, 2007 A Historian-Soldier Bridges His Identities By Gal Beckerman Published in The Forward February 2, 2007 An Optimistic Assessment by Lawrence Grossman Published in The New Leader January, 2007 Barbary Pirates, Missionaries: How U.S. Stumbled in the Mideast By George Walden Published in Bloomberg.com January 30, 2007 America and the Mideast, long before the Bushes By Jason Warshof Published in San Francisco Chronicle January 28, 2007 Relationship problems Michael Oren traces America's interest in the Middle East. By Steve Weinberg Published in Houston Chronicle January 26, 2007 Close Encounters American foreign policy at home in the Middle East. By Ronald Radosh Published in Weekly Standard January, 2007 This is where the world ends By Michael Bell Published in Globe and Mail January, 2007 Midnight at the Oasis By Max Rodenbeck Published in The New York Times January 28, 2007 Book Traces America's Deep Roots in Middle East By Julie Stahl Published in Crosswalk.com January, 2007 The ties that bind U.S.-Middle East relations go way back on numerous issues By Steve Weinberg Published in STLtoday.com January 21, 2007 How America Met the Mideast By Robert Kagan Published in The Washington Post January 21, 2007 Fated to Meddle By Rob Eshman Published in Jewish Jornal January 19, 2007 Ignorance Abroad Michael Oren's new history of America in the Middle East By Shmuel Rosner Published in Slate Magazine January 19, 2007 Romancing Araby By Sam Ser Published in The Jerusalem Post January 18, 2007 From "New Promised Land" To Desert Shield By Sandee Brawarsky Published in The Jewish Week January 18, 2007 Tugging at a Mass of Tangled Threads By Michael Kenney Published in The Boston Globe January 16, 2007 For more than 230 years, the United States has intertwined itself with the Middle East. Starting in 1776 with the attacks by Barbary pirates on American ships and ending with a discussion of America's current involvement in the region, read more... Beyond the Shores of Tripoli By Martin Peretz Published in The Wall Street Journal January 12, 2007 An Idea That Goes Way Back By Jonathan S. Tobin Published in Jewish Exponent January 11, 2007 Middle East By Douglas Little Published in Foreign Affairs January/February, 2007 To the Shores of Tripoli By Hilel Halkin Published in Commentary January, 2007 Arabian Nights and American Centuries By Steven G. Kellman Published in San Antonio Current December 12, 2006 To understand the present and make an informed judgment about the future, it is vital to read history and Michael B. Oren has gifted us with an extraordinary look at "America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present," read more... American involvement in Middle Eastern affairs is hardly new-and, writes historian Oren (Six Days of War, 2001, etc.), mostly "graced with good intentions." The Middle East-a term, Oren notes, coined by an American admiral a century ago-was a subject of intense interest across the waters in the early days of the Republic, thanks in good measure to the work of Mediterranean privateers who pressed American sailors into slavery. read more... In this engaging if unbalanced survey, the author of the acclaimed Six Days of War finds continuity in U.S. relations with the Middle East from the early 19th-century war against the Barbary pirates to today's Iraq war. read more... 
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Michael Oren in the Media
Prelude to the Six Days By Charles Krauthammer Washington Post, May 18, 2007 Author and Middle East historian Michael B. Oren to By Lyn Payne Florida Jewish News, March 2, 2007 Q&A With Michael B. Oren U.S. history travels through Middle East Historian to discuss America's ties with region By Michael J. Totten Houston Chronicle , February 28, 2007 An Interview with Historian Michael Oren on the Tangled Web of US Involvement from the age of Jefferson to Today By Michael J. Totten Pajamas Media, February 20, 2007 Reporting 230 years of the U.S. in Mideast Interview with Michael Oren By Carlin Romano The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 6, 2007 An interview with Michael Oren By Sam Ser The Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2007 INTERVIEW-U.S. Should See Middle East for Itself – Historian By Michelle Nichols Reuters Foundation, January 18, 2007 The Disputed Urge to Surge By Suzanne Fields Townhall.com, January 15, 2007 Israel Encounters an Unexpectedly Different War The military is not only battling a well-armed foe but also grappling with its own shortfalls. By Tracy Wilkinson and Henry Chu Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2006 |