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Gulf Islamist Dissent Over Egypt 19 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia issued an unusually rapid and strong endorsement of the Egyptian military crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood's sit-ins, calling on all Arabs to unite behind a crackdown ...
Egypt's Reset 24 Jul 2013 | 12:29 am
The Middle East Channel Editor's Blog How should analysts understand the combination of the June 30 massive popular mobilization and the July 3 military coup against then-President Mohamed Morsi? Sho...
Syria Debate (C-Span) 28 Jun 2013 | 11:47 pm
Here's a link to the video of my discussion today with Andrew Tabler at the Washington Institute about U.S. policy towards Syria, which was broadcast on C-Span. My comments begin at around the 25 minu...
Predictions are Hard: MEC Week in Review, June 28 28 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm
If a group of Middle East analysts had been asked two years ago to rank which Arab heads of state were most likely to still be in power by the end of June 2013, the Emir of Qatar would almost certainl...
The evolution of Arab public opinion research 19 Jun 2013 | 03:29 pm
How reliable is public opinion survey research in the Arab world? What lessons should we draw from its findings for policy or for academic hypothesis testing? Has the proliferation of new research, o...
Sliding Down the Syrian Slope 16 Jun 2013 | 09:07 pm
President Obama's move to increase the public flow of arms to selected Syrian rebels is probably his worst foreign policy decision since taking office. It is basically the Afghan surge decision redux:...
New: the Syria intervention debate and an MB review 13 Jun 2013 | 11:16 pm
Just some links to some new articles of mine which you may find of interest: The Syria (Intervention) Strategy Vaccuum: my weekly FP column looks at the policy implications of defining Syria's conf...
The World Through Arab Eyes 11 Jun 2013 | 06:14 pm
Shibley Telhami has long been interested not only in what mass Arab publics think, but how their attitudes affect the foreign policies of Arab regimes and how they should affect American policy in the...
Qaradawi, Jebali, APSA and a Busy MEC Week 7 Jun 2013 | 05:24 pm
The Middle East Channel Editor's Blog My weekly column this week places Yusuf al-Qaradawi's call for a sectarian jihad in Syria into the broader context of the changing Arab political public sphere...
Jebali's Cautious Optimism for Tunisia 4 Jun 2013 | 12:31 am
"Of course we made mistakes" isn't something you hear very often these days from Arab (or any other) political figures. So I found it refreshing to hear that frank admission from Hamadi al-Jebali, for...
