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Tahrir Protesters Find Common Ground in Marginalization

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Sep 19, 2025

How Israel’s strike on Doha is forcing a Gulf security reckoning

The Gulf monarchies have displayed strong unity at a time when rethinking twenty-first-century Gulf security is no longer optional.

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Tahrir Protesters Find Common Ground in Marginalization

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Sep 19, 2025

Snapback sanctions threaten to further derail Iran nuclear deal hopes

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Rob Macaire

Now would be the best time for the West to negotiate a deal with Iran—but snapback sanctions threaten a derailing into further confrontation.

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Nov 29, 2012

Tahrir Protesters Find Common Ground in Marginalization

By Basil El Dabh

President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood may have inadvertently accomplished for their opposition what they could not do for themselves in the past year. On Tuesday, members of virtually every revolutionary non-Islamist group filled Tahrir Square participating in a massive demonstration against the president’s constitutional declaration. Today, hundreds continue a sit-in in Tahrir, with […]

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Nov 29, 2012

Top News: Constituent Assembly Begins Voting on New Constitution

By Egypt Source

For the text of the constitutional draft in Arabic upon which the Constituent Assembly is voting, please click here. The Constituent Assembly began voting on the new constitution on Thursday afternoon, with 85 members present. The assembly will vote on each of the 234 articles one by one, and a majority of 67 members must […]

MENASource

Nov 29, 2012

Problems With Neighbors: Turkey, Iraq, and the Syrian Kurds

With reports of clashes between Kurdish militias and jihadist elements of the Syrian opposition in the ethnically mixed town of Ras al-Ain on the Syrian-Turkish border, the question of how Syria’s Kurdish population will fit into a post-Assad state has been forced to the front. For the past twenty months Syrian opposition forces have challenged […]

Iraq Syria

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Nov 29, 2012

NATO Partnerships in the Middle East: Time for a New Look

By Richard LeBaron

NATO’s efforts to establish patterns of cooperation with countries in the Middle East and North Africa have not prospered. With the exception of the Libya campaign, the Alliance has not played a significant role in addressing conflicts in the region. NATO has assiduously avoided involvement in the Syria conflict or in countering Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Formal […]

Middle East NATO

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Nov 28, 2012

Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Democracy

By Tarek Radwan

When Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi announced his now infamous constitutional decree last week, he probably expected some pushback – but nothing on the scale of what Egypt is witnessing today. In this turbulent transition, mistakes are bound to be made but Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood appear insistent on making it worse by not listening […]

MENASource

Nov 28, 2012

Another Election “Crisis” in Kuwait

By Richard LeBaron

Kuwait has more experience with elections than any other country in the Gulf and more than most countries in the Middle East and North Africa.  Its tiny population of eligible voters (currently around 400,000) has been going to the polls since 1975, and the number of crises involving the ruling al-Sabah family and the 50 […]

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Nov 28, 2012

Top News: Egypt Constitution Draft to be Finished Wednesday; President Stands by New Powers, Chief of Staff Says

By Egypt Source

The head of the assembly drafting Egypt’s new constitution said the final draft would be finished on Wednesday, and three other members of the assembly told Reuters the document would be put to a vote on Thursday.

MENASource

Nov 27, 2012

The Trust Deficit

By Mirette F. Mabrouk

Mohamed Morsi may be a new president but he’s developing a very steep learning curve. Last Thursday, possibly buoyed by his success in negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi released a new constitutional declaration giving himself almost unlimited, if supposedly temporary power. The declaration says that any law or decision issued by […]

MENASource

Nov 27, 2012

Why is the Muslim Brotherhood Waging War against the Media?

By Ahmed Naje

Nothing annoys the powers that be in Egypt like the media. In a speech after Friday prayers a few weeks ago, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi warned the public about the dangers of foreign-funded satellite channels, saying they distort the facts and slow progress. Days later, the prime minister announced that the broadcast of Egypt’s network, Dream, […]

MENASource

Nov 27, 2012

Top News: Morsi ‘optimistic’ about current instability; another Constituent Assembly member resigns

By Egypt Source

For up to the minute updates from the Tahrir protest today, follow: Ahram Online, Egypt Independent President Mohamed Morsi is optimistic that Egyptians will overcome the current political instability caused by his recent constitutional declaration, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said Monday, as the only woman on the Constituent Assembly’s drafting committee withdrew from the constitution-drafting […]

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