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‘Political Order and Political Decay,’ by Francis Fukuyama

It is easy to explain toxic water by resorting to Italian stereotypes, but it’s not very illuminating. Government incompetence is in fact universal. French...

ISIS Leader Was Member of ‘Moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood

  The U.S. government, especially the Obama administration , has been allied with the Muslim Brotherhood. Examples of a U.S./Brotherhood alliance are too many to...

Arab Uprisings May Doom Middle East Christians

  “Arab societies cannot hope to modernize without fully integrating Christians and other minorities in their countries’ political systems.”   In April 2011, Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian...

Egypt’s Resurgent Authoritarianism: It’s a Way of Life

After the 2011 revolution, outside social and political actors were optimistic that they could build a more responsive state; today, however, they are poorly...

Iran Appears to Fight ISIS, but Ultimate Goals Too Similar

The US has said that the rise of IS, a radical jihadist Sunni movement, is not only a threat to the region, but to...

Did Someone Say ‘Conquest’?: Turkey’s Ottoman Obsession

It's bizarre, we have not heard Interior Minister Efkan Ala speaking on what has been going on in Syria over the past few months...

‘Advice and Guidance’ Sessions in Religious Conversion Should Rsume; but Remain Painkiller, Not Treatment

The security officials responsible for and involved in the savage collective punishment inflicted on the Copts of Gabal al-Teir in Minya, some 240km south...

ISIS Has a Bigger Coalition Than We Do

  The same way that the fight for the Spanish Republic in the 1930s drew romantic idealists from all over the world, the jihad for...

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