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Commentary: One Year after Bin Laden's Demise
Gone and Forgotten?
One year ago, on May 2, 2011, the elite U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 unit killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a raid on his hitherto secret residence in Abbottabad, Pakistan. What has been the impact of this event?
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Tunisia's Islamists: Ennahda and the Salafis
In November 2011, less than one year after the ouster of President Ben Ali, the College of Arts and Letters at the Manouba University near Tunis was taken hostage by long-bearded men and veiled ...
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Netanyahu Forms Surprise Coalition with Kadima
In an unexpected move last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called early elections for September of this year. However, in yet another surprising turn of events, Netanyahu, a member of the Likud ...
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A Tense Period for Egyptian/Saudi Relations
Last week, protests against Riyadh’s decision to press charges against an Egyptian human rights lawyer forced the closure of ...
Continue ReadingLooking Ahead to the Egyptian Presidential Elections
With the Egyptian presidential elections scheduled to take place in less than three weeks, the attention of the media ...
Continue ReadingTaking Stock on the Anniversary of Osama bin Laden's Death
One year since the death of Osama bin Laden, regional newspapers and commentators are taking stock of the consequences ...
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The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square
Egyptians and Egypt watchers are still digesting the ramifications of January 25, 2011, when a small group of activists organized what they thought would be a modest Cairo street protest against police brutality. The eruption that followed stunned the organizers and the world: a ...
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April 11, 2012
The Transformation of Political Islam In the Arab Awakening
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