Opinion

The Brotherhood Breaks Down: Will the Group Survive the Latest Blow?

    Following the July 2013 ouster of Egypt’s first elected president, Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, Ezzat’s legend within the organization grew as he evaded the crackdown  that...

The Ugly Truth: Defeating the Islamic State Will Take Decades

    The politicians fulminate about defeating the terrorists, but they don’t talk much about the costs or sacrifices that will be required. The generals and...

Why Turkey’s Government Is Threatening Academic Freedom

According to state officials, military action in the region is aimed at curbing PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the left-wing militant Kurdish group) violence. However,...

How Iran Got What It Wanted From the Nuclear Deal

      The Iran nuclear deal brings to mind, of all things, the Rolling Stones. The Stones were wrong when they sang that you can’t always...

“Ikhwan-101” – Georgetown Profs Team Up with Suspected MB Front

    The think tank in question, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), twice has been the subject of law enforcement investigations, once during the...

Unprecedented U.S. Mideast Strategy Is Ad Hoc, Disregards Existing Frameworks

    But a closer examination of U.S. policies, now almost entirely dictated by the Obama White House, shows no cohesive national goals or policies exist,...

Saddam’s ISIS? The Terrorist Group’s Real Origin Story.

    One increasingly popular argument places the blame on the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As blogger Kyle W. Orton wrote  recently in The New York Times, “Those who assumed...

Egypt Parliament’s First Job: Reviewing 340 Laws in 15 Days

    Given the tight deadline and difficulty of reversing the effects of most laws, it will not be able to substantively debate each one, but...

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