Weekend Reading: Smuggling in Syria, Marriage in Mosul, and Egypt’s Development Challenges

Reading selections for the weekend of April 2, 2016.

Iraqi soldiers launch artillery toward Islamic State militants on the outskirt of the Makhmour south of Mosul (Azad Lashkari/Reuters).

By Steven A. Cook
Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies

Yasser Allawi interviews a Syrian smuggler, Abu Yazan, on the process of transporting refugees to Europe via Turkey.

Nawzat Shamdeen takes a look at marriage laws in Islamic State–controlled Mosul.

Gabriel Young investigates the political and economic challenges to development in Egypt.

By experts and staff