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Weekend Reading: Syria’s Trauma, Tunisia’s Sayings, and Egypt’s Economic Woes

Reading selections for the weekend of October 7, 2016.

<p>People who fled from Islamic State-controlled areas arrive in the northern Syrian rebel-held town of Waqf, near al-Rai town, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters).</p>
People who fled from Islamic State-controlled areas arrive in the northern Syrian rebel-held town of Waqf, near al-Rai town, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters).

By experts and staff

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  • Steven A. CookCFR Expert
    Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies

Peter Harling delves into the political and psychological trauma that the Syrian conflict’s victims and fighters suffer from.

Inel Tarfa guides readers through the world of Tunisian sayings and proverbs.

Farah Halime looks at the underlying challenge to the International Monetary Fund’s push for economic reform in Egypt, namely that Egypt’s banking sector is inextricably indebted to the country’s finances.