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The Coup Was The Revolution
By Will H. Moore A quick tour of stories covering the recent national elections in Egypt reveals a couple of standard news narratives (e.g., The Miami Herald worries that the election will be...
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Will the Egyptian Coup Affect Other Islamist Groups?
June 2012 photo by Flickr user Jonathan Rashad. Guest post by Brent Sasley In the aftermath of the Egyptian military’s overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government, observers have started to wonder...
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Mass Death Sentences Reflect Egypt’s Eliminationist Strategy
2013 photo by Lilian Wagdy, via Wikimedia. Guest post by Mohamad Elmasry Last Monday’s mass death sentences against 529 Egyptian civilians accused of killing a single police officer last summer should...
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Middle East Misconceptions That Are Messing Up US Foreign Policy
By Barbara F. Walter American soldiers in Iraq. By lachicaphoto. Violence in the Middle East has a way of tapping into one-dimensional reactions from most Americans. Whenever violence occurs,...
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Who’s Afraid of Ajnad Misr?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins and Kamal Eldin Salah Nighttime Egypt seen from the International Space Station. By NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. When IS’s Sinai affiliate Wilayat Sina’ (Province of...
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Why Egypt’s Presidential Elections are Neither Democratic nor Contentious
By Dawn Brancati and Shimaa Hatab. Protesters in Egypt, January 2014. Photo via Sebastian Horndasch. On March 26-28, Egypt will hold its third presidential elections since the Arab Spring protests...
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How Assad Won the Syrian Civil War Before It Began
Guest post by Eric Mosinger. Aleppo, Syria, November 29, 2012. Photo via Freedom House. In recent months, many observers of the still-smoldering civil war in Syria have concluded that Bashar al-Assad’s...
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Will the Egyptian Coup Affect Other Islamist Groups?
June 2012 photo by Flickr user Jonathan Rashad. Guest post by Brent Sasley In the aftermath of the Egyptian military’s overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government, observers have started to wonder...
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Mass Death Sentences Reflect Egypt’s Eliminationist Strategy
2013 photo by Lilian Wagdy, via Wikimedia. Guest post by Mohamad Elmasry Last Monday’s mass death sentences against 529 Egyptian civilians accused of killing a single police officer last summer should...
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Middle East Misconceptions That Are Messing Up US Foreign Policy
By Barbara F. Walter American soldiers in Iraq. By lachicaphoto. Violence in the Middle East has a way of tapping into one-dimensional reactions from most Americans. Whenever violence occurs,...
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Who’s Afraid of Ajnad Misr?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins and Kamal Eldin Salah Nighttime Egypt seen from the International Space Station. By NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. When IS’s Sinai affiliate Wilayat Sina’ (Province of...
View ArticleWhy Egypt’s Presidential Elections are Neither Democratic nor Contentious
By Dawn Brancati and Shimaa Hatab. On March 26-28, Egypt will hold its third presidential elections since the Arab Spring protests dislodged Hosni Mubarak from power after almost 30 years of...
View ArticleHow Assad Won the Syrian Civil War Before It Began
Guest post by Eric Mosinger. In recent months, many observers of the still-smoldering civil war in Syria have concluded that Bashar al-Assad’s triumph, once unthinkable, now appears inevitable. How did...
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