Holiday Reading

A man wearing a Santa Claus costume carries a Christmas tree in Jerusalem's Old City (Baz Ratner/Courtesy Reuters)

A man wearing a Santa Claus costume carries a Christmas tree in Jerusalem's Old City (Baz Ratner/Courtesy Reuters)

A protester runs with a petrol bomb towards the cabinet office, as other protesters set a part of its building on fire, during clashes with military police in Cairo (Asmaa Waguih/Courtesy Reuters)

A policeman tries to control the crowds as they gather outside a polling station during the second day of parliamentary elections in Giza (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomes a Kuwaiti official as Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah watches before an official meeting in Tehran (Morteza Nikoubazl/Courtesy Reuters)

Mursi, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood Party named "Freedom and Justice", talks during a news conference in the new headquarter in Cairo (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters)

An anti-government protester marches with a Bahraini flag during a rally organised by all opposition societies of Bahrain in Budaiya (Hamad I Mohammed/Courtesy Reuters)
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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