Blogs
Global Voices - Amira Al Hussaini
Helena Cobban- Just World News
Histories of Political Imagining - Reidar Visser
Life must go on in Gaza and Sderot
Middle East Diary - Hannah Allam
Middle East Strategy at Harvard
The Third Way, Mitchell Plitnick
Organizations
Alternative Information Center
American Task Force on Palestine
AMIN - Arabic Media Internet Network
Arab Reform Bulletin - Carnegie Endowment
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Committee to Protect Journalists: Middle East/North Africa
Council on Foreign Relations-Middle East Section
Foreign Policy in Focus - Middle East
Foundation for Middle East Peace - Settlement Report
International Middle East Media Center
Israel/Palestine Center for Research & Information
Jerusalem Media & Communication Center
Middle East Program - Carnegie Endowment
MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies
Articles
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CUMINet - June, 2009
However, I still have a hard time buying the idea, floated among some observers, that Ahmadinejad is actually in total control now, and that Khamene'i is merely his puppet.
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Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society - June, 2009
The one political issue that clearly concerns bloggers across the Arab world is Palestine, and in particular the situation in Gaza (Israel's December 2008/January 2009 military action occurred during the study). Other popular topics include religion (more in personal than political terms) and human rights (more common than criticism of western culture and values). Terrorism and the US are not major topics. When discussing terrorism, Arab bloggers are overwhelmingly critical of terrorists. When the US is discussed, it is nearly always critically.
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MERIP Middle East Report - June, 2009
The stakes are nothing less than these: Should the protesters persevere, the limited traditions of political and civil rights and citizen participation in the Islamic Republic may be considerably strengthened. Should Ahmadinejad and his supporters prevail instead, the political system in Iran may lose all remaining meaningful traits of a republic.
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Foundation for Middle East Peace - June, 2009
Settlement evacuation, not a freeze, is a more credible and necessary objective, more closely attuned to the essential long-term interests of both parties and firmly rooted in past Israeli practice, most recently in Gaza. Placing a freeze at the center of a U.S. diplomatic effort that calls for confidence-building measures from all parties invites failure, and risks eroding the credibility of a much-anticipated U.S. effort to end the conflict.
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Carnegie Endowment - June, 2009
U.S. democracy promotion efforts in the Middle East should focus on realistic political reform goals that correspond both to regional realities and the limited degree of actual U.S. influence.
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NY Review of Books - June, 2009
Saddam's use of chemical weapons turned the tide of war, and it was the trauma of this event that underpins Iran's policy of developing a nuclear capability.
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MERIP Middle East Report - June, 2009
Though he was a member of the Cultural Revolution's council, which hardly bodes well for those invested in artistic and intellectual freedoms, he has by some accounts taken a very passive role in recent years. Certainly, his fiery denunciations of Ahmadinejad suggest there will be a break from the status quo.
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Foreign Policy in Focus - June, 2009
The shift in discourse, away from justifying reckless imperial hubris, unilateralism, and militarism, and toward a more cooperative and potentially even internationalist approach was potent. The actual policy shifts were much smaller.
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Foreign Policy in Focus - June, 2009
President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo to the Muslim world marked a welcome departure from the Bush administration's confrontational approach. Yet many Arabs and Muslims have expressed frustration that he failed to use this opportunity to call on the autocratic Saudi and Egyptian leaders with whom he had visited on his Middle Eastern trip to end their repression and open up their corrupt and tightly controlled political systems.
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International Crisis Group - June, 2009
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MERIP - June, 2009
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World Bank - April, 2009
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Prospects for Peace - June, 2009
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International Crisis Group - June, 2009
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Carnegie Endowment - June, 2009
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Oxford Research Group - May, 2009
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The Economist - May, 2009
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Rand Corp - May, 2009
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historiae.org - May, 2009
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New Statesman - May, 2009
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Council on Foreign Relations - May, 2009
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Haaretz - May, 2009
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London Review of Books - May, 2009
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Foreign Affairs - May, 2009
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New York Review of Books - May, 2009
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Prospects for Peace - May, 2009
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Arab Media and Society - May, 2009
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Arab Media and Society - May, 2009
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Arab Media and Society - May, 2009
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Arab Media and Society - May, 2009
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