Why and how have Islamist politics thrived? Thursday afternoon the Project on Middle East Political Science hosted a panel discussion…
My piece on the Egyptian constitutional referendum was published on Al Jazeera America yesterday. Bottom line: the 98% "yes" vote was…
This post was originally published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. The opening of the Geneva II Syria peace…
The UN invitation to Iran now withdrawn because it failed to acknowledge the June 2012 Geneva 1 communique call for…
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's invitation today to Iran to attend threw the scheduled opening of peace talks on Syria…
It's a shortened week in DC, as Monday is Martin Luther King Day. But still lots of good events from…
My colleagues over at TransConflict have posted my reflection, prepared some months ago, on one chapter of the Scholarly Initiative,…
Thursday morning at the Carnegie Center, two scholars discussed Pakistan’s security and nuclear weapons development. Mansoor Ahmed is a lecturer…
I observed the Egyptian constitutional referendum yesterday and the day before in Minya governorate, whose provincial capital lies about 245…
Tuesday Frederic Wehrey, senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Program, presented his new book, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf:…