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July 29, 2011

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Clueless in DC, Chaos in Syria, Exhilaration in Benghazi

Syria's Sufi Tahleela Band performs during the third annual Sufi Festival in Amman (Ali Jarekji/Courtesy Reuters) Manar el-Shorbagy writes for al-Masry al-Youm on Washington’s failure to recogniz…

Weekend Reading: Clueless in DC, Chaos in Syria, Exhilaration in Benghazi
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

December 4, 2015

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Jews, Lebanon’s Mukhtars, and Saudi Arabia’s Women

Hanin Ghaddar talks to Magda Haroun, head of Cairo’s Jewish community, about her people’s legacy to Egypt. Nora Stel explores the role of mukhtars—elected neighborhood- or village-level state repres…

WR12042015
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

April 15, 2016

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Saudi Islands, the Hezbollah Corporation, and Syria’s Alawites

Reading selections for the weekend of April 15, 2016.

WR04152016
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

January 24, 2018

Lebanon
Should the United States Be Supporting the Lebanese Army?

In testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last November, I raised some doubts about U.S. military aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). My main concern was that the LAF "is increasingly i…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points