Kai Bird

Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and the author most recently of two books about the Middle East: Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis and The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames. He is now working on a presidential biography of Jimmy Carter.

Articles by Kai Bird

US President Barack Obama smiles during a state dinner in Berlin,on June 19, 2013. Obama said Russian and US nuclear weapons should be slashed by up to a third in a keynote speech in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate in which he called for a world of "peace and justice". AFP PHOTO /POOL/ MICHAEL SOHN (Photo credit should read MICHAEL SOHN/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama Got It Right on the Islamic State

Argument

Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark

November 19, 2015, 7:49 PM

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Why the Egypt revolution is good for Israel

The Middle East Channel

February 10, 2011, 5:42 PM

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Why the Egypt Revolution Is Good for Israel

Argument

February 10, 2011, 4:22 PM

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Portraits of a forgotten Middle East

The Middle East Channel

April 29, 2010, 4:14 PM

Pen Portraits from a Forgotten Middle East

Excerpt

April 27, 2010, 8:54 PM

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