From the Potomac to the Euphrates

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Weekend Reading: Liberal Arts in the Middle East, Morocco’s Durability, and Lebanon’s New President
November 4, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Yemen’s Moualleds, Lebanon’s Presidency, and Iraq’s Book Market
October 28, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Thinking About Culture and the Middle East
October 24, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Libyan Music, Gazan Tunnels, and Moroccan Politics
October 22, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Egypt’s Nightmare
October 19, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
The Perplexing Problems of Solving Syria
October 17, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Waiting on Mosul, Talking With Ghassan Kanafani, and Oman’s Houthi Policy
October 14, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Syria’s Trauma, Tunisia’s Sayings, and Egypt’s Economic Woes
October 7, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Shimon Peres, Egypt’s Ultras, and the Kurds of Iran
September 30, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Turkey: Writing “Erdo” Stories
September 26, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Morocco’s Amazigh, Istanbul’s Rent, and the Teacher of al-Minya
September 23, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Libya: Cameron, Sarkozy, and (Obama’s) Iraq
September 20, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Literature and Resistance in Turkey, Art and the Dictator, and a Year in Yemen
September 16, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Summer of Sadism
September 12, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading and Listening: Syria’s Druze, How to Define the Caliphate, and an Open Letter to Middle Eastern Governments
September 9, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Inside the Islamic State, the Decline of Lebanon, and Sectarianism in Syria Again
September 2, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Downtime
August 22, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Getting Sectarianism Wrong, the Death of Cheg Cheg, and “76 Hours in Tripoli”
August 19, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Turkey Is No Longer a Reliable Ally
August 12, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Turkey’s Coups, Iraq’s Descent, and Saudi Arabia’s Jews
August 5, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Turkey’s Failed Coup and the United States
August 1, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Immigration in the Emirates, North and South Yemen, and Egypt’s Copts
July 29, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
Weekend Reading: Turks on Turkey’s Failed Coup
July 22, 2016
By Steven A. Cook
How Erdogan Made Turkey Authoritarian Again
July 21, 2016
By Steven A. Cook