24 Results for:
Filters

August 21, 2012

United States
"Redline and Greenlight"

The Syrian dissident and human rights activist Ammar Abdulhamid entitles his very powerful blog entry today at the Syrian Revolution Digest site "Redline and Greenlight." What does he mean? In hi…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

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

December 6, 2013

United States
Weekend Reading: America’s Quagmire?, an Egyptian Thanksgiving, and Foreign Workers No Longer in Saudi

Ammar Abdulhamid looks at the consequences of U.S. inaction in Syria and elsewhere. Maged Atiya remembers his first Thanksgiving. Brian Whitaker on the underreported expulsion of foreign workers in…

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

March 29, 2013

Egypt
Regional Voices: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Tunisia

“Their lives are worthless when it comes to the interests of Egypt and Egyptians…I am a president after a revolution, meaning that we can sacrifice a few so the country can move forward. It is absolu…

Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz Alkhatib speaks to journalists during the opening of its embassy in Doha on March 27, 2013 (Dabbous/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

January 20, 2011

Politics and Government
The Calculations of Tunisia’s Military

Tunisian army soldier stands in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Democratic Rally party of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali during a demonstration in Tunis on January 20, 2011 …

The Calculations of Tunisia’s Military
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates