Holiday Reading
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
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)
From the Potomac to the Euphrates examines how debates about Mideast policy in Washington connect to the region, with a special focus on Egypt and Turkey.
Timur Hammond and Elizabeth Angell discuss the transformation of Turkey’s public spaces into spheres of public and engaged discourse.
This article was originally published in the Washington Post on Friday, June 7, 2013. In the past five years, Turkey has veered…
Suat Kiniklioglu discusses the reasons behind Turkey’s democrats and Liberals’ support for the protests, despite their traditional pro-AKP stance. The OccupyGezi…
This article was originally published on ForeignAffairs.com on Monday, June 3, 2013. When Recep Tayyip Erdogan was mayor of Istanbul in the…
This article that I co-authored with my good friend and colleague Michael Koplow was originally published on ForeignPolicy.com on Sunday, June 2,…