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Introducing The Editor's Reader
What should you be reading about the politics of today's Middle East, beyond (of course) the outstanding daily content on the Middle East Channel and the news and analysis featured in the MEC Daily...
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What Middle East academic experts think
Political scientists specializing on the Middle East see Jordan as the Arab country most likely to experience major new mobilization during the coming year, but see Bashar al-Assad as the Arab leader...
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Sudan's Protests
The Middle East Channel Editor's Reader, #5 Last week's outbreak of the largest wave of popular protests in Sudan in nearly two decades has opened up the possibility for change in one of the cruelest...
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Libya's Election (Editor's Reader)
The Middle East Channel Editors Reader #6 Votes are being counted in yesterday's historic election to select a temporary 200 member General National Congress in Libya. The voting process itself was...
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Are you there, Margaret? It’s me, Yemen.
This afternoon, a sizable Washington audience turned out to watch White House Counterterrorism advisor John Brennan talk about American policy toward Yemen. Imagine that -- a large Washington audience...
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How Muslims really think about Islam
I have been fascinated by some of the findings of a massive new Pew Research Center global public opinion survey of Muslims in 39 countries in every region of the world. Pew conducted 38,000...
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Morsi's Egypt
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's sudden move last week to oust the senior leadership of the Egyptian military broke a long period of political stagnation and began to bring into view the contours of...
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Jordan Going Darker
The Middle East Channel Editor's Reader #8 King Abdullah's approval this week of a controversial new law imposing potentially draconian controls over Jordan's internet is finally drawing attention to...
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The New Salafi Politics
Few developments associated with the Arab uprisings have generated as much concern of late as the rapid emergence of Salafi movements into the public arena. The performance of al-Nour Party in Egypt's...
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Failing Syria's refugees
-- The Middle East Channel Editor's Blog -- There are plenty of strong reasons for the United States and the international community to remain deeply cautious about taking a deeper role in Syria's...
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The Arab Monarchy Debate
It has been widely noted that monarchies have done better at surviving the Arab uprisings that began two years ago. Three Presidents (Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Saleh) have fallen, along with Muammar...
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Jebali's Cautious Optimism for Tunisia
"Of course we made mistakes" isn't something you hear very often these days from Arab (or any other) political figures. So I found it refreshing to hear that frank admission from Hamadi al-Jebali,...
View ArticlePredictions are Hard: MEC Week in Review, June 28
If a group of Middle East analysts had been asked two years ago to rank which Arab heads of state were most likely to still be in power by the end of June 2013, the Emir of Qatar would almost...
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A Syria Reading List
So you want to read up on the issues surrounding Syria, but you aren't satisfied with the usual list of -- often outstanding, sometimes less so -- think tank reports, blogs and op-eds which usually...
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