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The latest MEI Podcasts
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Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within
Speakers: Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman
July 25, 2011
My Father Died for Pakistan, An Examination of Religious Extremism in Pakistan
Speakers: Shehrbano Taseer, Marvin Weinbaum
June 28, 2011
Center for Turkish Studies' Second Annual Conference on Turkey
June 23, 2011
After the Arab Spring: Toward Political & Economic Inclusion in the Arab World
Speakers: Helen Clark, Robert D. Hormats, Amb. Edward Walker, Amb Wendy Chamberlin
June 22, 2011
Palestinian Authority-Hamas Unity Agreement: An overdue step towards peace or another stone in the road?
Speaker: Dr. Matti Steinberg
June 21, 2011
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Viewpoints
This concluding volume of the MEI Viewpoints series on the Environment and the Middle East explores the scope and modalities for region-wide and international cooperation to address the environmental challenges facing the Middle East. The implications of two such challenges that receive special attention in this volume — climate change and the increasing pressure on the Nile — are far-reaching and profound.
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Policy Insights
Egypt's Turbulent Road to Democracy: Challenges for US Policy
By Charles W. Dunne
The thousands that filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square, once again, on July 8 were not demanding the downfall of a regime. They were, instead, standing up for the promise of a revolution that they fear has gone badly wrong. They were there to demand that the country’s military rulers honor their vows to effect a transition to genuine democracy, with all that entails—not just free and fair elections, although those remain in doubt—but justice for those victimized and killed by the security forces during the revolution, legal accountability for figures of the Mubarak regime accused of serious crimes, and transparent governance by the military on the road to democracy. There is a sense in Egypt that the gains of the revolution may be slipping away, and the political process is in danger of failing. These concerns are far from unwarranted.
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Policy Briefs
Stephen Juan King
This Policy Brief is a case study of Morocco and Bahrain and their journeys through the uncertain territory of the “Arab Spring.”
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MEI Commentaries
 A Political Solution to the Afghan War
By Dr. Daniel Serwer
The timeline for US withdrawal from Afghanistan is now clear: 10,000 troops out by the end of this year and 23,000 more out by the end of next summer. That will leave 67,000 troops, who, if all goes according to plan, will be withdrawn before the end of 2014, with a possible residual assistance force of unspecified size thereafter. That solves the military equation. But what about the political formula? How will Afghanistan be governed after we leave? Will it remain under its current constitution? What role will there be for the Taliban? How will power be shared between Kabul and the provinces? How about the most troublesome neighbor, Pakistan? What will its role be? And what can the United States do to make the answers these questions come out in a direction that does as little harm to our interests as possible?
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Encounters
Jonathan D. Abetti
Architecture in the Sultanate of Oman ranges from the very elaborate and modern Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque to the very simple and traditional falaj...
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