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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 24, 2011
Weekend Reading
People swim in the Nile to cool off during a hot day in Cairo (Asmaa Waguih/Courtesy Reuters) Mona Yacoubian and Elias Muhanna discuss the new Lebanese cabinet and the Special Tribunal fo…
January 7, 2012
Turkey
Weekend Reading: SCAF-Salafi Alliance?, L’affaire Basbug, and Bahrain’s Opposition
Mona Anis says that perhaps Egypt’s Salafists are better suited than the Brotherhood for an alliance with the military. Merve Busra Ozturk provides reflections on the recent arrest of Turkish former…
April 27, 2012
United States
Weekend Reading: Women in the Arab World, Engaging Islamists, and the Great Wall of Israel
A compilation of reactions to Mona el-Tahawy’s controversial piece, “Why Do They Hate Us?”. Quinn Mecham writes a policy brief for POMED on a strategy for sustained engagement with Islamist parties…
August 3, 2012
Israel
Weekend Reading: Moroccan Exceptionalism?, Higher Ed in the West Bank, and Revolutionary Environments
Samia Errazzouki examines dissent in Morocco in the context of regional turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa. Bernard Avishai questions the legitimacy of the University of Judea and Samaria. …
August 31, 2012
Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egyptian Labor, Syrian Brutality, and Gulf Stereotypes
Eric Lee at In These Times discusses Egypt’s unfinished labor revolution. Robin Yassin-Kassab, on his blog Qunfuz, writes about the Assad regime’s brutality, highlighting the recent massacre in Dara…
