Séamus Malekafzali Séamus Malekafzali is a journalist and writer primarily focusing on Middle Eastern affairs. He is currently based in New York and was previously based in Paris and Beirut.

Be Grateful | Trump’s Latter-day Neoconservatism

Séamus Malekafzali

On October 13, international representatives gathered in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in the southern Sinai Peninsula. Sharm el-Sheikh had been occupied by Israel from 1968 to 1982, and suffered a major al-Qaeda attack in 2005; now President Donald Trump was there to ink an agreement that would end what he described as three thousand years of conflict in the Middle East. In keeping with such a momentous occasion,...