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Protester reads local newspaper in Manama (Hamad I Mohammed/Courtesy Reuters).
Nathalie Tocci writes about the EU’s response to the Arab Spring after more than a year after its beginning.
Reidar Visser discusses Maliki’s consolidation of power. Read more »
An official counts ballots for the presidential election after the polls were closed in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters).
Mahmoud Salem, also known as The Sandmonkey, rejects the prevailing narrative about Egypt’s top presidential candidates, days before the results appear. Read more »
Algeria's fans hold their national flag as they cheer during their international friendly soccer match against Serbia in Algiers (Louafi Larbi/Courtesy Reuters).
The Arabist discusses the Algerian exception.
Jeremy Keenan says that Algeria’s election was a fraud, ending hopes for democracy in the country. Read more »
A man reads a newspaper with a story about the new ministers that have been put in the Tunisian government, at a street kiosk in downtown Tunis (Louafi Larbi/Courtesy Reuters).
CFR’s recently released Independent Task Force on Turkey, co-chaired by Madeleine K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley, and directed by Steven A. Cook. Read more »
An Egyptian youth reads a newspaper in a cafe in Cairo (Suhaib Salem/Courtesy Reuters).
Itamar Rabinovich says the United States is substituting symbolic action for real action in Syria–at the detriment of the Syrian people.
Aboubakr Jamai explains the Moroccan “miracle” of mild authoritarianism. Read more »
Ultra-orthodox Jewish youths study the Talmud, a rabbinic interpretation of biblical law, inside their school's synagogue in Bnei Brak (Gil Cohen Magen/Courtesy Reuters)
A compilation of reactions to Mona el-Tahawy’s controversial piece, “Why Do They Hate Us?”.
Quinn Mecham writes a policy brief for POMED on a strategy for sustained engagement with Islamist parties. Read more »
Steven Cook reads Foreign Affairs in his office at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC (Alexander Brock)
Mohamed Abdel Raouf encourages renewable energy and green jobs in the Arab world.
The Arabist sheds light on the potential war between the Sudans. Read more »
A Muslim man reads the Koran on the second day of Ramadan in Khartoum (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Courtesy Reuters)
Turan Kayaoglu argues that, despite opinions to the contrary, there is a way in which secularism is actually thriving in the AKP’s Turkey. Read more »
A boy reads the Koran at Al Fatima Al Quran, a religious seminary, in Lahore (Mohsin Raza/Courtesy Reuters)
The Mosireen Collective, an Egyptian video project, recently nominated for “Best Video Channel” category of the distinguished Deutsche Welle International Blog awards (The BOBs)
Zeinab El Gundy for Ahram Online interviews some of the most influential Twitter users during Egypt’s revolution, getting their opinions on the role of the social media network going forward. Read more »
Emarati boy recites verses from the Quran in Dubai. (Anwar Mirza/Courtesy Reuters)
The Sandmonkey takes a step back from the Egyptian political scene and looks at the country’s real problems and some possible ways to start fixing them.
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou says Libya should learn lessons by looking at Iraq, or else it risks going down the same path. Read more »
On From the Potomac to the Euphrates, Cook provides a lens for viewing how debates about Mideast policy in Washington connect to the region, with a special focus on Egypt and Turkey.
The verdicts in the trial of the Mubaraks, former Interior Minister Habeeb al Adly, and eleven senior Ministry of Interior…
Nathalie Tocci writes about the EU’s response to the Arab Spring after more than a year after its beginning. Reidar…
Over the weekend when it became clear that Egypt’s presidential elections would go to a run-off between the Muslim Brotherhood’s…
I blew it. There is no other way of putting it. The following two sentences from a CFR “Expert Brief”…
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