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February 24, 2020

Iran
Have the Latest Elections Strengthened Iran’s Hard-Liners?

A sweeping win in parliamentary elections helps Iranian conservatives in a time of mounting tensions with Washington, but record-low turnout signals fading public support for Iran’s hard-liners.

In Brief by Ray Takeyh Middle East Program

October 28, 2016

Yemen
Weekend Reading: Yemen’s Moualleds, Lebanon’s Presidency, and Iraq’s Book Market

Reading selections for the weekend of October 28, 2016.

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

December 31, 2019

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2019

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

SO
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

April 11, 2013

United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Egypt, Syria, and Iran

Significant Developments Egypt. An Egyptian Coptic Christian died today from injuries sustained during sectarian violence over the past week, bringing the total number of deaths to eight. Violence e…

Coptic Christians run inside the main cathedral in Cairo as police fire tear gas and Muslims throw rocks and firebombs April 7, 2013 (Waguih/Courtesy Reuters)..
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

May 8, 2017

Saudi Arabia
Why the Myth of Sunni-Shia Conflict Defines Middle East Policy—and Why It Shouldn’t

Is the Muslim world divided over an ancient sectarian conflict? Not really: It's twenty-first-century power politics.

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates