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September 27, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: Increasing Equality in India

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, covering September 20 to Septembe 27, was compiled…

Women from various regions of Morocco protest against violence towards women, in Rabat. The placard reads, "Stopping harassment gives dignity for women."
Blog Post by Rachel B. Vogelstein Women Around the World

August 20, 2020

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The Middle East Plays Hardball, and the Palestinians Always Lose

Last week’s deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is the latest reminder that countries are always out for their own interests—and the weak suffer what they must.

Article by Steven A. Cook Middle East Program

March 20, 2017

Media
Fake News Has a Long History in the Middle East—and the Lessons for Americans Are Unmistakably Dire

Information has long been falsified and weaponized in Turkey and the Arab world—and we're headed that way fast.

BP03202017
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

November 4, 2011

Politics and Government
Egyptian Politics: Back to the Future

Egyptians cast their vote during a national referendum at a polling station in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters) Over the last three weeks as I have been out on the road with my book, The Struggle …

Egyptian Politics: Back to the Future
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

March 3, 2011

United States
The Blame Game

The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters) The blame game.  It’s an old inside the Beltway tradition that too often spills into the 24 hour news …

The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates