Issues/Arab Awakening

Arab Awakening

- 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.
- Op-Ed
New Arab World Order
- Marc Lynch
- August 16, 2018
- Foreign Affairs
Uprisings from Tunis to Cairo promised to end autocracies and bring democratic reforms. Those early hopes for a fundamental shift in Middle Eastern politics appear to have been misplaced.
- Op-Ed
The Quiet Threat to Human Rights in Tunisia
- Sarah Yerkes
- August 07, 2018
- Foreign Affairs
The government and civil society have been productive collaborators during previous phases of the Tunisian transition, but today, a climate of fear and a growing trust gap are getting in the way of their cooperation.
- Testimony
Egypt: Security, Human Rights, and Reform
- Michele Dunne
- July 25, 2018
- U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee
What the U.S. government, and particularly Congress, can do is scrutinize engagement with and assistance to Egypt in order to ensure that they promote stability for the nation rather than one man rule.
- Testimony
Security, Human Rights, and Reform in Egypt
- Andrew Miller
- July 24, 2018
- U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee
Egypt is on a dangerous course, one with grave implications for the United States. It will be difficult to reverse this trajectory, but Congress has an important opportunity to help the Trump administration tackle this thorny challenge by restoring U.S. credibility and influence with Egypt.
- Article
The Insurgency in Tunisia’s Western Borderlands
- Matt Herbert
- June 28, 2018
- - عربي
The nature of the conflict in Tunisia’s northwest differs from the country’s other security challenges in that it mirrors an insurgency rather than a protracted terrorist campaign.
- Event
The Return of Syrian Refugees
- Ibrahim al-Assil, Sana Mustafa, Maha Yahya, Joseph Bahout
- May 23, 2018
- Washington, DC
The conflict in Syria has created the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Whether refugees return to Syria depends on a number of conditions—such as governance and personal safety as well as political transition.
- Diwan
Their Dirty Business
- Michael Young
- May 21, 2018
- - عربي
In an interview, Jean-Pierre Filiu discusses his recent book on the mechanisms of survival adopted by Arab regimes.

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
Fellow
Middle East Program
Perry Cammack is a 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
Meddeb is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on economic reform as well as the 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.
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.