Weekend Reading: Politics and the PKK, Rule of Law in Libya, and Egypt’s Debt Debate

Shop owners read newspapers as they sit on the sidewalk in the Khan al-Khalili area of Cairo (Peter Andrews/Courtesy Reuters)

Shop owners read newspapers as they sit on the sidewalk in the Khan al-Khalili area of Cairo (Peter Andrews/Courtesy Reuters)

A vendor displays a plastic lantern at a shop selling Ramadan lanterns in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters)

A Palestinian schoolboy walks past a mural depicting captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in the Gaza Strip (Ismail Zaydah/Courtesy Reuters)

Egyptian Christian woman mourns at the Coptic Hospital in Cairo (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters)
My colleagues from the CFR’s Multimedia department and I put together the video below called “Egypt’s Democratic Quest: From Nasser to Tahrir” to coincide with the release of my new book The Struggle for Egypt. I hope you find it interesting and useful. Read more »
On From the Potomac to the Euphrates, Cook provides a lens for viewing how debates about Mideast policy in Washington connect to the region, with a special focus on Egypt and Turkey.
Below is my take on Egypt’s presidential elections, scheduled for May 23, originally published here on CFR.org. I hope you…
The Arabist discusses the Algerian exception. Jeremy Keenan says that Algeria’s election was a fraud, ending hopes for democracy in…
My colleague Laurie Garrett and I wrote this piece on the threat of foot and mouth disease in Egypt, which…
CFR’s recently released Independent Task Force on Turkey, co-chaired by Madeleine K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley, and directed by Steven…
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