In this section, you can read the latest publications published elsewhere by scholars, journalists, and think tanks on reform and transition in the Middle East. Articles are in English and in Arabic, updated weekly (archived by month). Their content does not reflect the views of Sada or the Carnegie Endowment.
April 20-May 3, 2013,
Arab Uprisings
Egypt
Iraq
- “Not the Iraq You Know, but the Iraq that Could Be,” by Mason Barnard (Harvard International Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, Spring 2013).
- “Special Ballot: Were Iraqi Military Forced to Vote for Al-Maliki?,” by Mustafa Habib (Niqash, April 18, 2013).
- “Iraq’s Kirkuk Remains in Legal Limbo,” by Karlos Zurutuza (Deutche Welle, April 19, 2013).
- “Iraqi Kurdistan a Dicatorship? Current President Will Break Law, Run for Election Again,” by Hiwa Barznjy (Niqash, April 25, 2013).
- “Lessons of the Iraq War,” by Meghan O’Sullivan (The American Interest, Vol. 8, No. 5, June 2013).
Libya
- “Libya’s Assets and the Question of Sovereignty” by Leonardo Bellodi, (Survival, Vol. 54 No. 2, Apr-May 2013). Print edition only.
Palestine
- “Policy Options in a time of Transition: US and Israel-Palestine” by Geoffrey Aronson (The Middle East Journal, Vol. 67, No. 2, Spring 2012).
Syria
- “Syria Spillover Risk as Assad Turns Desperate: Analysts,” by Ahmad Khatib (AFP, April 28, 2013).
- “Syria: Analysis, ‘Role of Muslim Sisters Growing’,” (ANSAmed, April 29, 2013).
- “INSIGHT: What Does Bashar al-Assad Want?,” by Yezid Sayigh (Middle East Voices, May 2, 2013).
- “Syria’s Deepening Hell” by James van de Velde (The American Interest, Vol. 8, No. 5, June 2013).
United Arab Emirates
April 3-19, 2013
MENA Economies
North Africa Security
Arab Uprisings
Egypt
Iraq
- “Does Iranian Presence mean end of Democracy in Iraq?,” by James Zumwalt (UPI, April 9, 2013).
- “Sadr-Maliki Political Crisis Heats Up,” (The Majalla, April 11, 2013).
- “Back in the Game: Iyad Allawi on Iraq’s Local Elections,” by Mina Al-Droubi (Majalla, April 18, 2013).
- “Northern Iraq: Peace, Harmony and Oil,” (The Economist, April 20, 2013).
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Syria
March 6-April 2, 2013
On the Arab Uprisings
- “The Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in The Arab Spring,” (The Middle East Journal, Volume 67, #1, Winter 2013).
- “The Seven Pillars of the Arab Future,” by Michael Wahid Hanna (Democracy A Journal of Ideas, Spring 2013, Issue #28).
- “Chastened Obama Returns to the Middle East,” (The Australian, March 18, 2013).
- “Aon’s 2013 Internactive Political Risk Map Draws on 15 Years of Emerging Market Data Collection,” (PR Newswire, March 19, 2013).
Bahrain
Egypt
Iraq
- “Kurds Protest Iraqi Forces Sent to Disputed Region on Syrian Border,” by Abdel Hamid Zebari (Al-Monitor, March 8, 2013).
- “Islamic State of Iraq Claims Responsibility for Massacre of Syrian Soldiers,” by Jennifer Parker (Foreign Policy, The Middle East Channel, March 12, 2013).
- “Civil-Society Organizations Emerge as Iraq’s Beacon of Hope,” by Dina Al-Shibeeb (Al Arabiya March 15, 2013).
- “Iraq in Retrospect,” by Gideon Rose (Foreign Affairs, March 18, 2013).
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Syria
- “How Syrian Women Are Fueling the Resistance and Why Washington Should Support Them,” by Fotini Christia (Foreign Affairs, March 6, 2013).
- “A Battle for Syria, One Court at a Time,” by Neil MacFarquhar (New York Times, March 13, 2013).
- “Syrian Policy to Change Unlikely on Obama Trip,” by Lesley Clark and Hannah Allam McCatchy (The Sacramento Bee, March 17, 2013).
United Arab Emirates
January-March 2013 Archive
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