Romesh Ratnesar

Romesh Ratnesar

"Romesh Ratnesar has produced a riveting account of one of the greatest speeches in modern times, which would have been enough. But along the way he has also written a brilliant and incisive history of the end of the Reagan Presidency and the Cold War. Tear Down this Wall affirms the power of words."


Why U.S. Should Cheer Tunisia’s Risky Revolution
Time.com, January 17th, 2011

What are we to make of the tumult in Tunis? Few uprisings in recent memory have materialized as suddenly and produced results as swiftly as Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution. Just one month ago, former President Zine el-Abdine Ben Ali and his clan luxuriated in the kind of outrageous fortune that only two decades of U.S.-backed, kleptocratic rule can buy: beachfront villas, pet tigers, ice cream flown in from St. Tropez. Now they can't even keep their rooms at Euro Disney.



Op-Ed: U.S. Should Embrace Change In Egypt

Egypt & Revolutionary Prospects

Guests:

Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer-Prize winning correspondent for the New York Times.
Shibley Telhami, professor of international relations at the University of Maryland and senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Robin Wright, veteran reporter on the Middle East and author of Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East.
Mona El-Gobashy, professor of political science at Barnard College. For the last decade, she has been looking at protest waves in Egypt.