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May 16, 2015
Human Rights
Weekend Reading: AKP and the Kurds, IS in Syria, and Arab Cartoonists
Serkan Demirtas writes about the AKP and the quest for peace with the Kurds Mohammad Raba’a discusses Wadi Barada, an Islamic State foothold in Syria. Jonathan Guyer explores free speech, satire, a…
March 29, 2013
Egypt
Regional Voices: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Tunisia
“Their lives are worthless when it comes to the interests of Egypt and Egyptians…I am a president after a revolution, meaning that we can sacrifice a few so the country can move forward. It is absolu…
July 12, 2013
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Upheaval in Egypt and Syria
Significant Developments Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood vowed today to continue resisting the army’s July 3 ouster of President Mohammad Morsi. The Brotherhood issued its call one day after the milit…
February 15, 2015
Why Can’t the White House See Terrorism and Anti-Semitism?
Recently I wrote a post critical of President Obama for calling the killings at a kosher grocery in Paris "random." Quite obviously they were not; they were meant to kill Jews. Today a meeting in Co…
May 1, 2017
Iran
Iran’s Presidential Test
Iran’s May 19 election will pit Ibrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the supreme leader, against the more centrist incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, in a contest that may hinge on the perceived economic im…
