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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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October 7, 2013
Egypt
Hero of the Crossing? Anwar Sadat Reconsidered
At 2pm on October 6, 1973, operation codename “Badr” began when two hundred Egyptian aircraft—under the command of General Hosni Mubarak—screamed low over the Suez Canal on their way to Israeli airba…
January 6, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
Democracy Hits the Gulf
Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah inspects an honour guard at Merdeka palace in Jakarta. (Supri Supri/Courtesy Reuters) When a news story says that an Arab prime minister nar…
March 11, 2014
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Saudi, The MB, and The Politics of Terrorism
Last Friday, the Saudi government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, lumping the Brothers in with Jabhat al Nusra, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and al Qaeda. The anno…
October 14, 2011
Turkey
Weekend Reading: Political Pitfalls, Sectarianism and the SCAF, and Foreign Policy Follies?
A vendor displays a plastic lantern at a shop selling Ramadan lanterns in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters) Amr el-Shobaki warns of the potential pitfalls of political exclusion in Egypt. A…
October 12, 2011
Israel
Egypt, Hamas, and the Shalit Deal
A Palestinian schoolboy walks past a mural depicting captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in the Gaza Strip (Ismail Zaydah/Courtesy Reuters) It is hard to believe, but it has been five and a half y…
