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Turkey’s Soft Power Successes

He says Turkey is well-poised to play a mediating role in various conflicts, with strong ties with different religious and ethnic groups where there are Turkish speakers.

Losing Cairo?

Since Barack Obama's speech six months ago, the Muslim world has begun to lose hope in the United States. But it's not too late ... yet.

A Grim Year for the Middle East

2009, begun with Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza, was a year of great torment and much misery in the Middle East.

Britain issues war crime arrest warrant for Israeli politician, then retracts

A British court issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister on Saturday.

Failed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks May Sink Obama’s Middle East Strategy

President Obama’s failure to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks has severely diminished his administration’s hopes of achieving a Two-State Solution. Persuading Israel and the Palestinians to reach an accord lay at

Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-way Street

President Obama in EgyptPresident Obama is under pressure to relaunch the political reform agenda in the Middle East, but low U.S. credibility and the region’s political stagnation leave little hope

Middle Eastern Democrats and Their Vision of the Future, Keynote Address

The National Endowment for Democracy hosted a day-long meeting to discuss the ongoing prospects for democracy in the Middle East.

Was Homeland Security Created to Protect Those Who Deceived the US?

Was Dr. Nidal Hasan a terrorist? Or was he a troubled pawn in an ongoing psy-ops campaign meant to revive a narrative that—like the fixed intelligence—was losing credibility? Both the

Egypt says no to Iran news channel

CAIRO: The Crew of al-Alam news channel, an Iranian news channel in Arabic, were surprised on Tuesday evening by their broadcasting being dropped on both of Egypt’s main satellites, Nile

Center Publishes Book on Education in the Arab World

CCAS and Routledge recently published an edited volume on the topic of education in the Arab world. Contributions to the volume originated from two conferences on the subject, one hosted