Below is the first installment in a series of three posts looking specifically at the prevailing debates on Syria and what to do about the situation there. In mid January, I wrote a piece on The Atl…

A policeman tries to control the crowds as they gather outside a polling station during the second day of parliamentary elections in Giza (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters) In the midst of Egyp…

There is no shortage of advice in the United States about how the Obama administration should approach Egypt.  The familiar ring of policy prescriptions bouncing around the Beltway and beyond is eith…

It may seem non-controversial these days to suggest that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) are not exactly forces for democratic change.  Much of Washington, which on…