Weekend Reading: Smuggling in Syria, Marriage in Mosul, and Egypt’s Development Challenges
![Iraqi soldiers launch artillery toward Islamic State militants on the outskirt of the Makhmour south of Mosul (Azad Lashkari/Reuters).](http://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/styles/slide_3_2/public/image/2016/04/WR04022016.webp)
Yasser Allawi interviews a Syrian smuggler, Abu Yazan, on the process of transporting refugees to Europe via Turkey.
Nawzat Shamdeen takes a look at marriage laws in Islamic State–controlled Mosul.
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Gabriel Young investigates the political and economic challenges to development in Egypt.
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