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February 5, 2018

Iran
Iran's Imperial Ambitions Challenge Middle East Borders

In May, 2017 Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps’ foreign operations branch known as the Qods Force, visited the Iraq/Syria border in the company of an Iran-…

December 15, 2015

Iran
Lebanon’s "Worthless" Government and the Fight Over the Presidency

It is rare for the prime minister of any country to call its government “worthless,” but Prime Minister Tammam Salam of Lebanon just did. For 19 months Lebanon has been unable to elect a president, a…

June 19, 2015

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Jews, an Afternoon With Hezbollah, and Moroccan Salafis

Sigal Samuel reviews a new Ramadan television series about Egypt’s Jewish community. The Beirut Report recounts the story of a journalist held by Hezbollah in southern Beirut. Imad Stitou argues th…

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January 14, 2014

Iran
Iran Mocks President Obama by Honoring Mughniyeh

President Obama has a full court press under way to stop Congress from passing new sanctions legislation that could--could, not will--impose sanctions on Iran one year from now if negotiations break …

January 10, 2014

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Why Shiites Fight, Egyptian Time Warp, and Militia Madness in Libya

Rodger Shanahan says that Shiites fighting in Syria are doing so not for sectarian reasons, but rather for reasons of geopolitics and self-preservation. Mohammed Fadel argues that Egypt has returned…

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