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Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis	The Fate of the Kurds	Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making
The Hajj and Europe	Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates	A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation
The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq	Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics	Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River
Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt	A Fresh Start for Pakistan?	Alawites and the Fate of Syria
Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising	Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal	Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900
From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?	What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'	Tradition vs Charisma: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide in the Muslim World
The Iberian Realm of Islam	Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies	Six Days That Shook The World
The Collapse of Ottoman Power	Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century	The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Kemalism: "The Religion of the Turk"	Iran for Beginners	Babylon Revisited
The Battle For 1948	Byzantium for Dummies	Islamic Imperialism: A History
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza	The Justinianic Plague	War and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Today & Yesterday
A Postcard from Jerusalem	June 2017: The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War	Middle Eastern Politics & Culture: Today & Yesterday
At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial	Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa	Iraq, Too, Must Separate Church and State
Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies Block the Way to Peace	Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization	Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker?
A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East	A Basis for Hope in the Middle East	Pragmatic de-Baathification is Key to Rebuilding Iraq
Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict	Can Iraq Learn to Live in Peace?	Yom Kippur: A First Step to Peace
Zionist Idea of Security Blocks Path to Peace	Understanding the Middle East	11/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)
October 2014: Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later	The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring	October 2013: Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks on Peacekeepers in Lebanon
March 2013: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later

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