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September 8, 2022

Middle East and North Africa
Egypt Is Hosting COP27. Can It Become Africa’s Climate Champion?

As host of the UN climate talks, Egypt is trying to attract financial support for the continent’s climate actions. But its record of repression and reliance on fossil fuels threaten to undercut that …

In Brief by Kali Robinson

May 30, 2014

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Meeting Assad’s Biographer, Alawis Have No Religion, and Egypt’s War on Artists

When Martin Kramer met Patrick Seale. Robin Yassin-Kassab’s primer on Syria’s Alawis. Delegitimizing artists in Sisi’s Egypt.  (Hat tip to Arabist)

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

November 23, 2014

Israel
Closing Rafah: A Tale of Two Narratives

Think about this: Israel closes the major crossing point into Gaza. Thousands of Gazans are stranded in other countries and cannot get home.  In Gaza a thousand more people, in need of medical treatm…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

January 9, 2019

Middle East and North Africa
Abbas Celebrates 14th Anniversary of His Four-Year Term

On January 9, 2005—exactly 14 years ago today—Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. For a four-year term. Today Abbas begins serving the fifteenth year of his four-year…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

June 2, 2017

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
How Six Days in 1967 Shaped the Modern Middle East

On the war’s fiftieth anniversary, five scholars discuss how Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the Arab world were remade.

Israeli soldiers in front of the Dome of the Rock.
Expert Roundup by Nathan Thrall, Steven A. Cook, Elliott Abrams, Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Mouin Rabbani, and Zachary Laub