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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
Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization	Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies Block the Way to Peace	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
Yom Kippur: A First Step to Peace	Can Iraq Learn to Live in Peace?	Zionist Idea of Security Blocks Path to Peace
Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict	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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