A nation must think before it acts.
S. Abdallah Schleifer is the Washington and national bureau chief of Al Arabiya news channel, professor emeritus at the American University in Cairo, visiting scholar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, also in Washington, D.C., and an FPRI Senior Fellow.