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Arab Awakening

- Sada - Analysis
Public Trust in Arab Armies
- Nicholas J. Lotito
- October 30, 2018
- - عربي
Rising public trust in Arab militaries at the expense of governments could signal a disruptive trend in civil-military relations and portend instability to come.
Arab Horizons: Pitfalls and Pathways to Reform
- Perry Cammack
- October 24, 2018
The Arab Middle East faces unprecedented socioeconomic, political, and institutional challenges. Amid burgeoning conflict and economic stagnation, trust has eroded between governments and their citizens.
- Event
Arab Horizons: Is A New Regional Order Possible?
- William J. Burns, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Marwan Muasher, Hala Aldosari, Rabah Arezki, Perry Cammack, Elise Labott
- October 24, 2018
- Washington, DC
The old Arab order has collapsed. Can a new order be created?
Fueling Middle East Conflicts—or Dousing the Flames
- Perry Cammack, Michele Dunne
- October 23, 2018
More than any other region in the world, the Middle East is defined not by commercial ties, diplomatic interaction, or regional organizations, but by hard power and military might.
- Op-Ed
The Next Arab Uprising: The Collapse of Authoritarianism in the Middle East
- Marwan Muasher
- October 16, 2018
- Foreign Affairs
The fundamental bargain underpinning stability in Middle Eastern states is coming undone, and unless regional leaders move quickly to strike new bargains with their citizens, even larger storms will come.
- Event
Is a Sovereign Palestine Still Possible?
- Hanan Ashrawi, Daniel Levy, Andrew Miller, Michele Dunne
- October 11, 2018
- Washington, DC
What will the recent changes in U.S. policy—including recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, terminating assistance to Palestinians and UNRWA, and closing the Palestinian representative office in Washington—mean for the future of U.S.-Palestinian relations and the Palestinian national project?
- Event
Tunisia: Justice in Transition
- Salwa El Gantri, Ricard Gonzalez, Sarah Yerkes
- October 02, 2018
- Washington, DC
The Carnegie Middle East Program will screen the documentary, “Tunisia: Justice in Transition.” The film tracks the trajectory of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, established in 2013 to address the crimes of the Ben Ali and Bourguiba regimes.
- Event
One State/Two States: Pathways for the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
- Edward P. Djerejian, Marwan Muasher, Nathan J. Brown, Zaha Hassan, Gilead Sher, Joyce Karam
- September 18, 2018
- Washington, DC
U.S. policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is shifting rapidly. Today, the idea of a two-state solution is under serious challenge due to political shifts in the Israeli and Palestinian camps, changes on the ground, and changes in the U.S. stance.
- Paper
The Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
- Maha Yahya, Marc Lynch, Frederic Wehrey, Frances Z. Brown, Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck
- September 13, 2018
- Project on Middle East Political Science
International and expert attention is increasingly focused on the impending challenges of reconstruction, repatriation, and reconciliation following the devastating wars and state failure which followed the Arab uprisings of 2011.
Post-2011 Pluralism and Inclusion in Jordan: Rhetoric vs. Reality
- Marwan Muasher
- September 04, 2018
- Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
Jordan is in dire need of a new social contract, one that regards all citizens as equal and gives them a meaningful voice as the country attempts to address its economic situation.

Carnegie Experts on
Arab Awakening

Loulouwa Al Rachid
Co-Director
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Loulouwa Al Rachid is a co-director of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Joseph Bahout
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Program
Joseph Bahout is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program. His research focuses on political developments in Lebanon and Syria, regional spillover from the Syrian crisis, and identity politics across the region.
Alexander Baunov
Senior Fellow
Editor in Chief of Carnegie.ru
Moscow Center
Baunov is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center and editor in chief of Carnegie.ru.
Frances Z. Brown
Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Frances Z. Brown is a fellow with Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where she researches stabilization, state building, democratization, decentralization, drivers of conflict, and local governance in fragile states.
Perry Cammack
Nonresident Fellow
Middle East Program
Perry Cammack is a nonresident fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on long-term regional trends and their implications for American foreign policy.
Kim Ghattas
Senior Visiting Fellow
Kim Ghattas is a senior visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she is focused on writing a book about the impact of the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia on the wider region since 1979.
Harith Hasan
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Carnegie Middle East Center
Harith Hasan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on Iraq, sectarianism, identity politics, religious actors, and state-society relations.
Kheder Khaddour
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.
Nikolay Kozhanov
Former nonresident scholar
Foreign and Security Policy Program
Moscow Center
Kozhanov is a former nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center and a contributing expert to the Moscow-based Institute of the Middle East.
Stefan Lehne
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe
Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states.
Marc Lynch
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Marc Lynch is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world.
Hamza Meddeb
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Hamza Meddeb is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on economic reform, political economy of conflicts, and border insecurity across the Middle East and North Africa.
Andrew Miller
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Program
Andrew Miller is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program.
Ahmed Nagi
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Ahmed Nagi is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his research centers on Yemen.
Yezid Sayigh
Senior Fellow
Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of post-conflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.
Frederic Wehrey
Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Wehrey specializes in post-conflict transitions, armed groups, and identity politics, with a focus on Libya, North Africa, and the Gulf.
Maha Yahya
Director
Middle East Center
Yahya is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.
Sarah Yerkes
Fellow
Middle East Program
Sarah Yerkes is a fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia’s political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Youngs is an expert on the foreign policy of the European Union, in particular on questions of democracy support.