Middle East

What the Third Square Represents

By Mai El-Sadany

Colored by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s call to fight terrorism through a popular mandate that brought millions to the streets, Egypt is witnessing a deepened polarization of the political scene. The increasingly-armed and charged Muslim Brotherhood sit-in that is now solidly going into its second month has added to this tension, contributing to the emergence […]

Part I: Can the Transitional Government Turn the Egyptian Economy Around?

By Mohsin Khan

Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in January 2011, the Egyptian economy has been struggling. While much of the blame for the economic problems that the country is facing is directed at the Morsi government that took office in June 2012, the decline started over a year earlier. Indeed, in many respects economic performance under the […]

Iran’s Cyber Capabilities Pose a Threat to United States

On July 29, the South Asia Center‘s Iran Task Force and the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security‘s Cyber Statecraft Initiative launched an issue brief entitled, “Iran: How a Third Tier Cyber Power Can Still Threaten the United States” by Barbara Slavin and Jason Healey, and hosted a public briefing on past and possible future […]

Turkey-Syria-Kurdish Fronts Heat Up

By Ross Wilson

Reports that Turkish F-16s will fly reconnaissance flights along the Syrian frontier highlight rising alarm over border security and suggest a further internationalization of the civil war in Syria with implications for it, Turkey, and the region’s Kurds.