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The End Times Experiment: A Review of The ISIS Apocalypse

November 19, 2015 0 Comments Arabian Gulf, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, McCants, Sunni, Syria

Despite their prominence in America’s daily news cycle, the leaders of the Islamic State remain misunderstood.  Many pundits and analysts

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Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance

November 9, 2015 0 Comments Egypt, Egyptian parliamentary elections, Hamas, Jason Brownlee, Mubarak, U.S.-Egypt Relations, United States, US Foreign Policy

Faiqa T. Mahmood is a Visiting Fellow at The Stimson Center’s South Asia program. She is also a Research Associate

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Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 0 Comments Hama, Raphael Lefevre, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian Crisis

Ashes of Hama by Raphael Lefevre provides a chronological description of the progression of the Syrian Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood). The

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Review of the Oscar-Nominated Documentary, “The Square”

February 2, 2014 0 Comments Arab Awakenings, Egypt, Social Justice, youth

Just as Egyptians were preparing themselves for the third anniversary of the 2011 “Lotus” Revolution, a sold-out theater on the

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Purifying Transitional Governments of Authoritarian Bureaucracies: Lessons from Eastern Europe for the Arab World

December 13, 2013December 13, 2013 1 Comment Iraq, Libya, Transitional Justice

The follow article is a review of the book, Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary,

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A Review of Another Empire? A Decade of Turkey’s Foreign Policy Under the Justice and Development Party

April 10, 2013November 24, 2013 0 Comments Islamism, Turkey

Edited by Kerem Öktem, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, and Mehmet Karlı Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2012 Cigdem Hajipouran Benam holds a PhD

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