Tag Archives: World War I

James Zogby* In his ground-breaking 2008 book, The Way We’ll Be, my brother John used decades of polling to observe and define the values and worldviews unique to cohorts of Americans. He argued that their life experiences shared with contemporaries, defining events and traumatic moments, shaped their views, values and sense of possibility. …

This year’s centennial of the end of the First World War has many important lessons for the present, writes Hany Ghoraba   Hany Ghoraba   Many historians and political analysts view World War II as the most important event in modern world history, and few of them treat the First World War …

Anthropologist Alia Mossallem tells Dina Ezzat how the voices of Egyptian troops in World War I can be reconstructed   Dina Ezzat – Al-Ahram Weekly   Alia Mossallem, an anthropologist who reads history through the parallel accounts of cultural artefacts and documentary archives, has been busy listening to the voices of Egyptian …