Weekend Reading: Remembering Heikal, Iran’s Elections, and the Arab Media’s Refugees
![Iran's former Parliament speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri fills in his ballot during elections for the parliament and Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint and dismiss the supreme leader, in Tehran (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters).](http://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/styles/slide_3_2/public/image/2016/02/WR02262016.webp)
Maged Atiya reflects on the late Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s relationship with his readers and his role in Egyptian society.
Rouzbeh Parsi examines the paradoxes of Iran’s parliamentary and Assembly of Experts 2016 elections.
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Eliot Benman looks at how Arab media covers the Middle Eastern refugee crisis.
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