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Weekend Reading: Iran’s Foreign Policy, Egyptian Dystopian Literature, and Protests in Morocco

Reading selections for the weekend of July 21, 2017.

<p>A woman shouts slogans during a demonstration against official abuses and corruption in the town of al-Hoceima, Morocco (Youssef Boudlal/Reuters).</p>
A woman shouts slogans during a demonstration against official abuses and corruption in the town of al-Hoceima, Morocco (Youssef Boudlal/Reuters).

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

Ariane Tabatabai and Annie Tracy Samuel find that the Iranian state’s attitude toward the Iran nuclear deal is rooted in its experiences during the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War.

Andrew Leber explores the rise of post-revolutionary dystopian stories as new genre in Egyptian literature.

Jesse Brent argues that Morocco’s monarchy is no longer able to control the ongoing Amazigh-led protests in the northern Rif region.