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Sunday, September 8, 2013

The crisis in Egypt: Notes from Rabaa al-Adawiya

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Rabaa al-Adawiya protestors This post was submitted by a guest contributor who prefers to remain anonymous . In response to the events...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Will sectarianism destroy Iraq? Part 2: Iraq is not Syria

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Iraqis protesting parliament salaries Recently I wrote a post, "Will sectarianism destroy Iraq?"  Part 1: the counterattack by...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Battling Lost Memory: Tunisian Women Write the Revolution

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Tunisian women demand their rights Guest contributor, Dr. Douja Mariem Mamelouk, who recently returned from conducting research on...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

The al-Nahda Party will not leave power until the last second, not the last minute...political Islam had entered the countdown period

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al-Nahda Party leader Rashid al-Ghannushi Dr. Alaya Alani is Professor of Contemporary History at Manouba University in Tunisia.  The in...
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Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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