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Syria: Is It Too Late?

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May 23, 2025

The Gulf is emerging as Washington’s new strategic anchor

The so-called US “Golden Age for the Gulf” is one rooted in strategic utility, equal footing, high-stake deals, and fewer strings.

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Syria: Is It Too Late?

MENASource
May 22, 2025

Lebanon’s 1982 war reverberates in Israel’s Syria campaign

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Sinan Hatahet

Israel’s ongoing intervention in Syria appears different from its 1982 invasion of Lebanon—but beneath the surface, parallels are striking.

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Syria: Is It Too Late?

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May 21, 2025

Iran’s shadow looms large over the Houthi ceasefire

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Fatima Abo Alasrar and Behnam Ben Taleblu

The Houthis may have suspended their attacks on US vessels, but it’s too soon for another “mission accomplished” in the Middle East.

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Jan 14, 2013

Syria: Is It Too Late?

By Frederic C. Hof

Syria is dying. Bashar al-Assad has made it clear that the price of his removal is the death of the nation. A growing extremist minority in the armed opposition has made it clear that a Syria of citizenship and civil society is, in its view, an abomination to be killed. And those in the middle […]

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MENASource

Jan 14, 2013

Article 198: “Crimes that Harm the Armed Forces”

By Mai El Sadany

When stressing the merits of Egypt’s new draft constitution and the rights it would guarantee the Egyptian people, a December 21st presidency-approved press release noted that Article 198 of the draft prohibited military trials for civilians. Just weeks after the document’s approval, civilian journalist and blogger Muhamed Sabry was arrested in Sinai for filming in […]

MENASource

Jan 14, 2013

Top News: Egypt’s Legal Experts Await More Evidence on Mubarak’s Retrial

By Egypt Source

The cassation court’s order on Sunday to retry ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adly has been received differently by legal experts regarding whether or not the re-trial could include new evidence and possibly new defendants.

MENASource

Jan 11, 2013

Reading into Cairo’s Cacophony of Newspapers

By Miriam Berger

“Egyptians read newspapers like they smoke cigarettes,” Ahmed, 57, a newspaper seller on Tala’at Harb Street off of Tahrir square told me—while smoking a cigarette. It is true that in today’s multimedia age print papers have undeniably lost their past hegemony; by all accounts, television is now the alpha medium in Egypt. But since the […]

MENASource

Jan 11, 2013

Top News: PM Forms Committee to Prepare and Study Draft Laws

By Egypt Source

Prime Minister Hesham Qandil has moved to form a High Committee for Legislative Affairs that would prepare and study draft laws, presidential decrees and the prime minister’s resolutions.

MENASource

Jan 11, 2013

Morsi’s Dilemma: Political Ambitions Versus Economic Pragmatism

By Mustansir Barma

Egypt’s January 6 partial Cabinet reshuffle was commissioned by President Mohamed Morsi in a bid to address the country’s ongoing economic woes. Double digit unemployment, high inflation, dwindling foreign reserves, and a sliding currency are among the long list of macroeconomic challenges that Prime Minister Hesham Qandil’s Cabinet has to tackle while keeping in check […]

MENASource

Jan 10, 2013

Lessons Learned

By Yussef Auf

The thirty-two days between the 22nd of November and the 24th of December 2012 were unlike any in Egypt’s history. They began with President Mohamed Morsi’s “constitutional” declaration issued on the 21st of November and ended with the announcement of the official results of the referendum on the new constitution. These 32 days were punctuated […]

MENASource

Jan 10, 2013

Top News: Prosecutor General forms Revolution Protection Prosecution

By Egypt Source

Prosecutor General Tala’at Abdallah has formed a new body to investigate crimes committed against protesters during the 2011 Revolution. The Revolution Protection Prosecution is headed by Amr Fawzy and includes 20 further members.

MENASource

Jan 10, 2013

Aid or Arrests? Qatar and UAE Go Separate Ways on Muslim Brothers

By Richard LeBaron

The ruling families of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have staked out opposite poles in relation to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian press reported on January 8 that visiting Qatari Prime Minister Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani announced additional economic support for Egypt: a new $2 billion deposit in the Central Bank (although it does […]

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Jan 9, 2013

Housing Co-operatives: The Future of Mubarak-Era Corruption in Morsi’s Government

By Alastair Beach

When the first of the 2.3 million stone blocks were lugged into place around 4,500 years ago, the great Pharaoh Khufu probably hoped his tomb would stand in glorious isolation for eternity. But four and a half millennia later, the Pyramids of Giza have almost been eaten up by the urban sprawl which over the […]

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