by
Steven A. Cook
October 16, 2012
Protesters rest at Tahrir square in Cairo (Suhaib Salem/Courtesy Reuters).
Blogging will be light for the next few weeks. In the meantime, here are some interesting new releases on the Middle East that you may enjoy:
The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran
by Ali Ansari
Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad
by David W. Lesch
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines – and Future
by Karen Elliott House
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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. The full text of Deputy…
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,…
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