Friday Roundup 4.1
A street vendor sells nuts during a demonstration against the government in Amman (Muhammad Hamed/Courtesy Reuters)
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A street vendor sells nuts during a demonstration against the government in Amman (Muhammad Hamed/Courtesy Reuters)
An Egyptian man prepares kunafa, a traditional Middle Eastern dessert in Cairo (Nasser Nuri/Courtesy Reuters)
Cairo – Well, today was the big day…January 25th…National Police Day…and Egypt’s Day of Rage.
It began for me at 230am when I was wandering back to my hotel from Bab el Luq.
I found myself on Falaky Street near the Interior Ministry. It was already flooded with police. Read more »
Shi’ite pilgrims pray at Imam Abbas shrine in the holy city of Kerbala in Iraq. Shi’ite Muslims are commemorating Ashura, the most important day in the Shi’ite calendar which remembers the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the 7th century battle of Kerbala. 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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