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Egypt, Turkey, and Tunisia Are All Slowly Islamizing Amr Dalsh/Reuters

Egypt, Turkey, and Tunisia Are All Slowly Islamizing

Institutions are gradually shifting in favor of Islamists in many Arab Spring countries.

Can Israel's New Coalition Fix Relations with Turkey? Nir Elias/Reuters

Can Israel's New Coalition Fix Relations with Turkey?

Tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara run too deeply for a single election to make much difference.

Time to Admit the U.S. Can't Control Egypt's Leaders Reuters

Time to Admit the U.S. Can't Control Egypt's Leaders

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi refusal to condemn the anti-U.S. protests is a hard lesson on the new Egypt.

Egyptian Anger at the U.S. Goes Way Beyond This One Movie Reuters

Egyptian Anger at the U.S. Goes Way Beyond This One Movie

The protests are not just about an offensive film, they're about decades of perceived insults on Egyptians' national pride and collective dignity.

Is the World Too Easy on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Leaders? Reuters

Is the World Too Easy on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Leaders?

President Mohamed Morsi's government is getting unusual latitude, maybe because the Brothers may have built up some credibility.

The Oddly Cordial Letter That the Muslim Brotherhood Sent to Israel Reuters

The Oddly Cordial Letter That the Muslim Brotherhood Sent to Israel

What we can learn from Egyptian President and Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi's note to Israeli President Shimon Peres -- assuming it's real.

What We Know (and Don't) About the Turkish Jet That Went Down by Syria Reuters

What We Know (and Don't) About the Turkish Jet That Went Down by Syria

Three weeks after the Turkish RF-4 mysteriously crashed, someone is not telling the truth.

Debunking Three Myths About the Muslim Brotherhood Reuters

Debunking Three Myths About the Muslim Brotherhood

Sorting out truth from myths on Egypt's powerful Islamist party.

Justice vs. Revenge: The Disappointing Injustice of Hosni Mubarak's Trial Reuters

Justice vs. Revenge: The Disappointing Injustice of Hosni Mubarak's Trial

The now-imprisoned Egyptian president could be on his way to being cleared of charges.

Whoever Wins Egypt's Presidency, the Party is Over for Washington Reuters

Whoever Wins Egypt's Presidency, the Party is Over for Washington

Whether Muslim Brother Mohamed Morsi or former Mubarak official Ahmed Shafiq wins the election, the U.S. will face tougher challenges in Cairo.

How Egypt-Watchers Got The Presidential Race So Wrong Cairo

How Egypt-Watchers Got The Presidential Race So Wrong

Observers, myself included, underestimated both the Muslim Brotherhood and many peoples' desires to return to something approximating the old order.

Egypt's Mishandling of Sinai Could Risk Unwanted Confrontation With Israel Reuters

Egypt's Mishandling of Sinai Could Risk Unwanted Confrontation With Israel

Security on the Egyptian peninsula should be an issue of U.S.-Egyptian-Israel cooperation.

Can We Really Know How the Muslim Brotherhood Would Govern? Reuters

Can We Really Know How the Muslim Brotherhood Would Govern?

Questioning the assumptions about how Egypt's big Islamist party will behave.

Why Is Mubarak's Vice President Running for Egypt's Presidency? Reuters

Why Is Mubarak's Vice President Running for Egypt's Presidency?

Rating three theories for Omar Suleiman's odd candidacy.

Turkey's Lesson for Egypt: Don't Prosecute Your Military Rulers (Yet) Reuters

Turkey's Lesson for Egypt: Don't Prosecute Your Military Rulers (Yet)

What Egyptians can learn from the story of General Kenan Evren, who led a Turkish coup in 1980.

Why It's So Tough to Write About Israel Reuters

Why It's So Tough to Write About Israel

The challenge -- and importance -- of good writing on Israel, Palestine, and peace.

The Uncertainties of a Post-Assad Syria Reuters

The Uncertainties of a Post-Assad Syria

Many outsiders believe the country would fall into chaos, but this could be false.

Could a Syrian Intervention Work? Reuters

Could a Syrian Intervention Work?

The practicality and morality of a Western military mission

Syria and the Limits of Diplomacy Reuters

Syria and the Limits of Diplomacy

Understand what will and won't work in pushing Bashar al-Assad from power.

The Egypt-U.S. Breakup: It's Not You, It's Me AP

The Egypt-U.S. Breakup: It's Not You, It's Me

After decades of partnership, is Cairo serving us with divorce papers?

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