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Guest Post: AQAP and Yemen
Members of Yemen’s U.S-trained counter-terrorism force raid a house during field training near Sanaa I’ve been busy so I enlisted Marisa Porges to guest post today. Marisa is a former international...
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Roundup
An Egyptian man prepares kunafa, a traditional Middle Eastern dessert in Cairo (Nasser Nuri/Courtesy Reuters) Hi folks, Thought you might be interested in these great new articles and blog posts on...
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Weekend Reading
A woman weaves a carpet at a factory in Mashad, east of Tehran (Caren Firouz/Courtesy Reuters) Qifa Nabki on the Lebanese stalemate in forming a new government. Joshua Landis on Syria Comment discusses...
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Weekend Reading: Drones, Graffiti, and La Volte-Face
Tribesmen loyal to Yemeni opposition tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar guard outside al-Ahmar's headquarters in Sanaa (Suhaib Salem/Courtesy Reuters) A very interesting anecdote on and look at...
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Weekend Reading: Young Yemenis, Liberation in Libya?, and Judging Egypt’s...
Man reads Koran beside shelf stacked with them at Masjid Al Kabir, also known as Grand Mosque, during Ramadan in old city of Sanaa (Jumana El-Heloueh/Courtesy Reuters) Tik Root, on Al Jazeera,...
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Weekend Reading: Saleh Comes Home, Palestine Is Born?, and Redistricting in...
Anti-government protesters shout slogans during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Saleh in Sanaa (Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi/Courtesy Reuters) Gregory Johnson on Saleh’s return to...
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Weekend Reading: The Palestinian Question, Yemen’s New Leader, and Religious...
Ahmed Nagi says Egypt’s new government lacks a vision for resolving the Palestinian question. Sami Moubayed takes a look at Yemen’s new president. Michael Young discusses the role of religious...
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Weekend Reading:Yemen’s Terrorism Problem, Egypt’s Presidential Candidates,...
Blogger NoonArabia for Bikya Masr says the United States must reevaluate its counterterrorism policy in Yemen. Sandmonkey looks at a few major presidential candidates on the eve of registration for the...
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Weekend Reading: Gulen and Gender Equality, Tribulations in Tripoli, and...
A look at gender equality within the controversial Gulen movement’s educational institutions in Turkey. Barak Barfi discusses realistic goals for Libya’s Transitional Council. Abubakr al-Shamahi...
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Weekend Reading: Snapshots of Protests in the Middle East
Nafeesa Syeed provides a closer look at the ongoing protests at the U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen. Evan Hill offers an interesting analysis of the anti-American demonstrations sweeping the Arab world....
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Weekend Reading: Women and Early Islam, Yemen’s Separatists, and Syrian...
Helen Lackner on Open Democracy, discusses the possibility of southern separatists in Yemen disrupting the country’s unity. Nada Moselhy describes the experience of many of the Syrian refugees now...
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Weekend Reading: Intervention in Syria, Yemen’s National Dialogue, and...
Robin Yassin-Kassab discusses the complexity of the situation in Syria as the US contemplates action against the use of chemical weapons. Kevin Alexander Davis argues that the national dialogue in...
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Weekend Reading/Viewing: Lingo in Morocco, Lights Out in Yemen, and Urban...
Mohamed Kasmi discusses the linguistic richness in Morocco, and the related linguistic policies the government has enacted over the years. Abubakr Al-Shamahi says that keeping the lights on in Yemen...
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Weekend Reading: On Being Jewish in Egypt, Iraq’s Militias, and What Just...
An old one from Eric Rouleau, who reflects on his experiences as an Egyptian-Jewish journalist. Omar el-Jaffal examines the phenomenon of militias in Iraq and its implications on the Iraqi state. Atiaf...
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Weekend Reading: Houthi Rebels, Orthodox Intelligence, and Combative Kurdish...
Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani finds that Yemen is becoming polarized between the Shia Houthi rebels and the Sunni Islah Islamist party. J. J. Goldberg looks at the rising influence of the right in Israel’s...
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Weekend Reading: Algeria’s Police Protest, Yemen’s Houthis Move In, and...
Thomas Serres suggests that the recent police protests in Algeria demonstrate how Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s regime is “being inundated from all sides.” Fernando Carvajal reflects on the new power balance...
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Weekend Reading: The Classics And The Middle East, ISIS vs. AQAP, and How...
Andrew Gilmour argues that the study of classics is useful to understanding contemporary power struggles in the modern Middle East. Cole Bunzel discusses the rivalry between ISIS and al-Qaeda in the...
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Weekend Reading: After the Uprisings, Egypt’s Despotism, and Yemen’s Meltdown
Karl Sharro presents a satirically “simple” diagram of the Arab uprisings and their aftermath. Amro Ali looks at how the citizen contributes to the sustainability of despotism in Egypt. Susanne...
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Weekend Reading: Kurds in ISIS, Houthis in Sanaa, and Netanyahu in Washington
Rebecca Collard reports on Kurdish men who have joined ISIS and attacked their own people. Nabeel Khoury looks at who the Houthis are, their ambitions, and the options before them. Michael Koplow...
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Weekend Reading: Wahhabism and ISIS, the Yemeni State, and the State of Yemen
Lorenzo Kamel examines how the Wahhabi establishment in Saudi Arabia attempts to differentiate itself from the ideology of ISIS. Jay Ulfelder finds that recent events in Yemen challenges traditional...
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