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Max Fisher

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The Egyptian government has held them without charge for over a month.

  • Feb 3, 2014

Why are people protesting? What’s the bigger picture? Where is Ukraine, anyway?

  • Feb 1, 2014

An American celebrity gets stuck in one of the Israel-Palestine conflict’s most sensitive issues.

  • Jan 30, 2014

Yes, the first question is “What is Ukraine?“

  • Jan 30, 2014

The big one was the Iran nuclear deal. The rest were, well, modest.

  • Jan 29, 2014

This complex statistical model predicts the probability of a coup in every country this year.

  • Jan 28, 2014

The film follows a group of young Syrians in the city of Homs for two years.

  • Jan 28, 2014

The new pope has set high goals with high rhetoric but suffered setbacks in his efforts.

  • Jan 27, 2014

Egypt’s de facto military leader, Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, follows in a long line of field marshals.

  • Jan 27, 2014

Where there are protests, where they’ve seized buildings, and the ethno-linguistic division behind the crisis.

  • Jan 24, 2014

Even with Thursday’s temporary truce, the clashes were often severe.

  • Jan 23, 2014

U.S. officials declined to confirm reported drone strikes in Ontario’s tribal regions. (Note: satire)

  • Jan 23, 2014

A brief video guide to sectarian conflict in the Middle East.

  • Jan 22, 2014

Three reasons that mass demonstrations have returned to Kiev’s Independence Square

  • Jan 21, 2014

“I am not haunted by my decision not to engage in another Middle Eastern war.“

  • Jan 21, 2014

Some protesters even put together a big catapult.

  • Jan 21, 2014

Yoweri Museveni explains his theory for the causes of homosexuality.

  • Jan 17, 2014

The Oscar-nominated film contributes to Egypt’s poisonous atmosphere of polarization and distrust.

  • Jan 17, 2014

What the “Daily Show” host gets right and wrong about the sanctions bill.

  • Jan 16, 2014

Security forces arrested a P.R. team in Cairo to promote the Egyptian government.

  • Jan 15, 2014
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Max Fisher is the Post's foreign affairs blogger. He has a master's degree in security studies from Johns Hopkins University. Sign up for his daily newsletter here. Also, follow him on Twitter or Facebook