Arab intellectuals remain unsurprisingly split over the speech by Barak Obama to the Islamic world.
While some consider it as bold, historic and an opening of a new chapter in US relations with the Islamic world, others simply see it as evasive and lacking substance.
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Interesting roundup of five different reactions from Arab intellectuals to Obama's Cairo speech. While the article doesn't provide new factual evidence, it presents the views of a former Palestinian advisor, a Syrian writer, a Brookings Institute researcher, a Jordanian scholar and an American professor. They each present a different perspective, which provides helpful context on the impact of this speech. I would have liked to hear other perspectives and a bit more interpretation from the author, rather than just the Middle East observers cited in the article.
