Friday Roundup 4.1
A street vendor sells nuts during a demonstration against the government in Amman (Muhammad Hamed/Courtesy Reuters)
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A street vendor sells nuts during a demonstration against the government in Amman (Muhammad Hamed/Courtesy Reuters)
An Egyptian man prepares kunafa, a traditional Middle Eastern dessert in Cairo (Nasser Nuri/Courtesy Reuters)
Cairo – Well, today was the big day…January 25th…National Police Day…and Egypt’s Day of Rage.
It began for me at 230am when I was wandering back to my hotel from Bab el Luq.
I found myself on Falaky Street near the Interior Ministry. It was already flooded with police. Read more »
Shi’ite pilgrims pray at Imam Abbas shrine in the holy city of Kerbala in Iraq. Shi’ite Muslims are commemorating Ashura, the most important day in the Shi’ite calendar which remembers the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the 7th century battle of Kerbala. Read more »
On From the Potomac to the Euphrates, Cook provides a lens for viewing how debates about Mideast policy in Washington connect to the region, with a special focus on Egypt and Turkey.
This article originally appeared here on ForeignPolicy.com on Wednesday, June 13, 2012. I hope you find it interesting and look…
My friend, Karim Mezran, weighs in with a guest post today on an under-reported meeting between a prominent Libyan Islamist…
Yesterday there were two interesting Syria pieces in the Sunday papers. The Washington Post ran a story by Liz Sly—who, by…
Before there was Mohamed Bouazizi there was Khaled Said. The official “We Are All Khaled Said” Facebook page that helped instigate the…
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