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January 14, 2022

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: First Woman Nominated to Pakistan’s Supreme Court

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers January 8 to January 14.

A man rides a bicycle past the Supreme Court building in Islamabad.
Blog Post by Haydn Welch Women Around the World

May 12, 2017

Arab Spring
Available to Order: “False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East”

False Dawn is now available to order!

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

January 27, 2017

Russia
Weekend Reading: Russia in the Levant, the Uprising in Alexandria, and Tunisians Look Back

Reading selections for the weekend of January 27, 2017.

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

October 28, 2014

Egypt
Egypt’s Economy: Bringing The State Back In

Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew visited Cairo on Monday and no one seemed to notice or care. That’s probably because of the awful terrorist attack that took the lives of at least 31 Egyptian consc…

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

June 9, 2014

Politics and Government
Hello (Ahlan), Abdul Fattah al-Sisi: President of Egypt

Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took the oath of office as Egypt’s new president yesterday.  He succeeded the interim president, Adly Mansour. And who appointed Mansour? Why, Sisi himself after he and the Egypt…

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge