This is a presentation on current events in the Greater Middle East, delivered in April 2004 to the international advisory board of a very large multinational corporation. It analyzes global terrorism, its causes, features, and remedies. The text was meant to be unpublished and not circulated but was leaked by someone to the internet, without permission. A few months later, various versions of the article were posted in over 1000 websites, followed by unauthorized translations to eight languages, offers of publication in various magazines and quotes in editorials and articles of leading commentators. One year later, an authorized Hebrew translation was finally published in the "New Keshet" literary magazine in Israel. The English origin was never published. The article led to a book by the same name (see below), published one year later.
This is a presentation to the same international advisory board, in May 2005. Although it carries a similar title, it deals with different topics concerning the greater Middle East. It was never published anywhere.
Following the significant impact of the original 2004 article, it was expanded into a book with the same title "A View from the Eye of the Storm: Terror and Reason in the Middle East", published in April 2005 by the ReganBooks imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York.
In 2006 an Italian publisher acquired the rights for an Italian translation for the book "A View from the Eye of the Storm – Terror, and Reason in the Middle East". The book was translated and the publication date was set for November 2006. A special introduction to the Italian edition was written in August 2006, immediately after the Lebanon war, relating to the incredible European reaction to that war. Upon receiving the introduction, the Italian publisher decided not to publish the book, without ever explaining his action. The text of the introduction was posted on some websites and had a considerable circulation on the web during the remaining months of 2006.
A lecture (followed by a discussion session) delivered in Washington D.C. (June 2006) at a seminar organized by The Applied Physics Lab of Johns Hopkins University. The lecture is part of a series called "Rethinking the Future Nature of Competition & Conflict". The lecture is named after the book but deals with a wider spectrum of topics.
A typescript of a lecture and a Q&A session at the Kreisky Forum, an intellectual "club" of the Social Democratic Party in Austria. The title relates to the book, but the topics covered are wider.
An interview regarding the book "A View from the Eye of the Storm – Terror and Reason in the Middle East" with a journalist (Ryan Mauro).
Fortune magazine convened a conference, in Aspen, Colorado, under the presumptuous title “the smartest people we know”. Attendance was by invitation only. It took place a very short time after the horrific September 11 attack in New York and Washington. Some participants were asked to express views on current issues. This short interview was then published in Fortune in November 2001.