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January 13, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Monitor Meltdown
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. President Bashar al-Assad gave a rare and defiant speech on Tuesday in which he once again blamed foreign conspirators, lashed out against other Arab stat…
October 14, 2011
Jordan
Striking Findings in Jordan
A member of the Daaja Jordanian Bedouin tribe holds a poster of Jordanian king Abdullah as he performs during a rally to celebrate the king's birthday in Amman (Ali Jarekji/Courtesy Reuters). With t…
April 7, 2006
Iran
Iran’s Multifaceted Foreign Policy
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Iranian foreign policy is not the province of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but rather of a complex set of groups mostly run by clerics. This results in a foreign po…
February 22, 2013
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: Egyptian Elections, Damascus Explosions, and a New Tunisian Government
Significant Developments Egypt. President Mohammed Morsi issued a decree last night calling for parliamentary elections to begin April 27 and end in late June. The vote will take place in four stage…
August 23, 2012
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Lebanon Erupts, Syria Boils, and Egypt Builds Up
Significant Middle East Developments Lebanon. Renewed clashes broke out today in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli between Sunnis and Alawites, despite a ceasefire brokered yesterday. Since fightin…
