The post below was written by my friend and colleague, Patrick Costello.  As the civil war in Syria grinds on, the President’s speech last week has shifted the debate from Congress back to the inter…

After the military intervention that toppled Morsi and imprisoned much of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leadership, many Egyptian and foreign observers are speculating that Egypt’s Salafis are poised to r…

Aaron Stein has argued in these pages that the AKP’s foreign policy is underlined by more realism than idealism. Certainly the party has crafted different policies toward different Arab states. But t…

My dear friend, Nervana Mahmoud, an Egyptian-born doctor in the UK, is a keen observer of Egyptian politics.  Her article below discusses power dynamics among Egypt’s principal political actors and h…

The article below, about the AKP’s foreign policy in the Middle East, was written by my friend and colleague, Aaron Stein. I hope you find it interesting.  In September 2011, Turkish Prime Minister …