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A sweeping narrative account of the last five years in the Middle East and a timely argument of how and why the Arab uprisings failed.
Once a diverse, cosmopolitan society, Egypt has descended into corruption, inequality, and bigotry. Sound familiar?
A Palestinian-American activist's 2012 tweet unleashes a firestorm. But Zionism, good or bad, is not that weird.
Well-fed lobbyists and think tank experts do battle over catered lunches—but it's not as sleazy as it sounds.
Erdogan isn’t the root of Turkey’s troubles. It’s a deep-seated cycle of repression and revenge—with no end in sight.
The March on Justice, organized by opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, puts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a bind: He can try to stop it, risking violence, or he can let it go on and watch the already large procession of opposition grow.
The president has made plenty of unforced foreign policy errors. But in the Middle East, he seems to grasp what the United States can achieve and, importantly, what it cannot.
Two obscure islands that many Egyptians didn't even know about suddenly threaten President Sisi's regime.
As politicians purposefully polarize their own society for political profit, the result is rage and violence.
King Salman's son Mohammed is now the desert kingdom's dominant figure—and the challenges before him are huge.
The next several years will likely hold continued violence and instability for the Middle East, where the "Arab Spring" largely failed to produce lasting improvements; these issues are beyond Washington's capacity to resolve.
Sure, the tiny gulf state is a lousy ally — but so is everyone else in the region.
While Trump's visit to the famously repressive Saudi kingdom was quite a show, U.S. policy looks awfully familiar.
Trump's critical meeting with the controversial Turkish strongman comes after a long litany of American mistakes.
"There is a tendency to believe that Egyptians rebelled against Hosni Mubarak.... That is true, but it is not entirely accurate," writes CFR Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies …
Israel's Permanent Occupation of the Golan Heights
Should the United States recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights? The question has come up in the last few weeks, because Israel is having an election in April. Prime Minister Benjamin N…
Turkey Is An Unreliable Partner In The Fight Against ISIS
Erdogan promises to finish America's fight against the Islamic State, but it's the Kurds that he's out to destroy.
The Case for Reshaping U.S.-Turkey Relations
When Andrew Brunson, the North Carolinian pastor, was released from Turkish custody in October, President Donald J. Trump tweeted that he was looking forward to “good, perhaps great, relations betwee…
Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance Is Even Stranger Than It Seems
The full text of this article is available here on ForeignPolicy.com.
What in the world? No seriously, what the…? When it comes to Saudi Arabia these days, things could not get weirder or uglier. …
America Is Not an Innocent Bystander in Yemen
This article first appeared here on ForeignPolicy.com on September 27, 2018.
Until the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000, for U.S. policymakers, Yemen was a place of khat chews, faux touris…
