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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025:  The US and the Middle East
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The Rise of the Sunni Crescent in 2025: The US and the Middle East

Juan Cole

The big victors in the rise of a Lebanon-Syria-Jordan Sunni Crescent are Turkiye and the Sunni Arab Gulf monarchies

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Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

Syria’s incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit

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Will his New Sanctions on Iran Cost Obama the Presidency?

A sharp drop in the value of the Iranian currency as a result of new American sanctions may sound like good news to hawks in […]

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Top 5 Foreign Policy Challenges for US, 2012

My list of challenges last year this time more or less nailed it, especially my concerns about the Mubarak era ending in Egypt. Many of […]

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On the end of Newt Gingrich’s Campaign

On the end of Newt Gingrich’s Campaign

“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” – François de La Rochefoucauld (d. 1680)

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Iraq
Iraqis Celebrate being Free of US Troops, Fear US Meddling

Iraqis Celebrate being Free of US Troops, Fear US Meddling

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq held a rally in a sports stadium on Saturday to celebrate Iraq being free of US troops. He declared […]

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Egypt
New Year's 2012 in Tahrir Square, Egypt

New Year’s 2012 in Tahrir Square, Egypt

New Year’s in Tahrir Square, Cairo: The leftist crowd begins by singing the national anthem. Then a woman revolutionary calls out, “Bread, Freedom and social […]

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New Year's in Dubai 2012

New Year’s in Dubai 2012

New Year’s in Dubai

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2011: End of US Hyperpower & its War with Islamdom

2011: End of US Hyperpower & its War with Islamdom

Some years are pivotal and serve to mark off eras of history. 2011 saw the end of American hyperpower, and it announced the end of […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Top Ten Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011

Top Ten Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011

1. The upheavals of 2011 were provoked by the Bush administration’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq Bzzt! Wrong answer. None of the young people […]

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