Weekend Reading: Remembering Heikal, Iran’s Elections, and the Arab Media’s Refugees
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Weekend Reading: Remembering Heikal, Iran’s Elections, and the Arab Media’s Refugees

Reading selections for the weekend of February 26, 2016.
Iran's former Parliament speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri fills in his ballot during elections for the parliament and Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint and dismiss the supreme leader, in Tehran (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters).
Iran's former Parliament speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri fills in his ballot during elections for the parliament and Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint and dismiss the supreme leader, in Tehran (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters).
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook
February 26, 2016 5:00 pm (EST)

Maged Atiya reflects on the late Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s relationship with his readers and his role in Egyptian society.

Rouzbeh Parsi examines the paradoxes of Iran’s parliamentary and Assembly of Experts 2016 elections.

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Egypt

Iran

Media

Refugees and Displaced Persons

Eliot Benman looks at how Arab media covers the Middle Eastern refugee crisis.

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Egypt

Iran

Media

Refugees and Displaced Persons