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Great Powers and the People: The Divergent Paths of the Egyptian and Syrian Revolutions
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Great Powers and the People: The Divergent Paths of the Egyptian and Syrian Revolutions

Mehmet Rakipoglu

The Arab revolutionary wave that began in 2011 presents two of its most significant, yet fundamentally divergent, case studies: Egypt and Syria

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A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

12/06/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Kelly Bill would allow Lawsuits over Social Media Algorithms that promote Violence, Extremism

Kelly Bill would allow Lawsuits over Social Media Algorithms that promote Violence, Extremism

12/06/2025 By Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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Rumsfeld We Never Said It Tony Blair

Rumsfeld: We never said it! Tony Blair admitted Thursday that he had not understood what was being claimed in British intelligence estimates that Iraq could […]

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Honduras Protests Against Iraq War Us

Honduras Protests against Iraq War, US Imperialism Thousands of protesters, including students, union members and leftists, thronged the streets of five major cities in Honduras […]

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Kurdish Parliament Rejects Islamization

Kurdish Parliament Rejects Islamization

Kurdish Parliament Rejects Islamization of Personal Status Laws Late last December, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and some allies on the US-appointed Interim Governing Council issued an […]

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Al Hakim Presidential Council Ok Abdul

Al-Hakim: Presidential Council OK Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and a member of the US-appointed Interim Governing […]

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Reformers Implore Sistani To Intervene

Reformers Implore Sistani To Intervene

Reformers implore Sistani to Intervene in Iran Crisis Ali Nourizadeh of the Saudi newspaper ash-Sharq al-Awsat reports today that more than 400 Iranian writers and […]

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Sistani Aide Loose Federalism Not In

Sistani Aide: Loose Federalism not in Iraq’s Interests BBC Monitoring picked up a radio interview in Cairo on Sawt al-`Arab on Wednesday with an aide […]

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Tension In Najaf Between Sciri And

Tension in Najaf between SCIRI and Sadrists Hamza Hendawi of AP recently reported on the rising tensions between the followers of young radical cleric Muqtada […]

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1 Us Soldier Killed 1 Wounded By

1 US Soldier Killed, 1 Wounded, by Roadside Bomb; Kurdish toll rises to 100 BAGHDAD, Feb. 3 (Xinhuanet) — “A US soldier was killed and […]

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Kerry Slams Bush On Iraq On Winning 5

Kerry Slams Bush On Iraq On Winning 5

Kerry Slams Bush on Iraq On winning 5 of 7 primaries on Tuesday, John Kerry immediately came out swinging at Bush over Iraq, Dean-style (without […]

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