January 27, 2012

• Egypt: Same (hard) questions a year later
• Palestine: Politics make for Strange-Bedfellows
• Iran: Is anyone coming to dinner?

January 13, 2012

• Syria: the Arab League of shadows
• Iraq: toasting the US withdrawal with a “Saddam light?”
• The Arab Uprisings: from 2011 to 2012...what next?

December 9, 2011

• Syria: An Impending Humanitarian Crisis?
• Egypt’s Vote Begins: The Election vs. the Revolution
• Successful Islamist Parties: The Brand ‘Justice and Development’

November 18, 2011

• Syria: Suspension, Sanctions, and Civil War – what does the future look like?
• Turkish-Kurdish Relations: The earthquake of Van and inter-ethnic negotiation
• The Turkish Armed Forces:  Conscription changes amidst regional instability

November 4, 2011

• Libya:  The ties that bind Saif al-Islam and NATO
• Palestine: Seeking International Recognition and Assessing the UNESCO Vote
• Lebanon:  Civil war? Over Syria? Ain’t gonna happen.

October 21, 2011

• Israel-Palestine: Bruised toes and egos: sidestepping the new power dynamic in Israel-Palestine
• Tunisia: Dissecting a transformation, assessing Sunday’s elections
• Turkey and PKK:  Regional alliances crush the separatist push...again

October 7, 2011

• Drones: Generation Kill 2.0
• Pakistan: Making things go kablooey in Kabul, again
• Yemen: Enter the void

September 24, 2011

• Palestinian UN Vote: UN-Conceived notions of statehood
• Yemen: A Bad Man is Hard to Lose
• Social Media: Debunking (again) the Twitter revolution

September 9, 2011

• Israel: The middle class strikes back...but will it succeed?
• Yemen: Recipes for disaster; stubborn autocrat + divided opposition = stalemate.
• Mauritania: Portrait of an al-Qaeda leader as a young man (a SISMEC Translation Project).

August 26, 2011

• Libya: Where in the World is Muammar Qaddafi
• Syria: Bashar cracks down on the funny pages
• Syria again: Rebellion and Intervention, Libya style?
• Egypt-Israel: Is the Thrill Gone?

August 12, 2011

• Syria: Sunni business elite speculates on regime default swaps
• Iran: Strangelove in Tehran and Tel Aviv
• Somalia: Good news but don’t get your hopes up

July 29, 2011

• Counterjihad: Staring into the abyss...
• al-Qaeda: On the Ropes or Rope-A-Dope?
• Arab-Israeli Conflict:  Will Syria, the US or the Palestinians come out on top?

July 15, 2011

• Af-Pak: Uncle Sam becoming big brother in the war on terror?
• UAE: a Machiavellian decision maker, a true power broker or a little of both?
• The Gulf: China has the map to better business relations

July 1, 2011

• Syria: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a....roadmap??
• Libya: China bets on the rebels
• Somalia: JSOC opens drone franchise in the Horn

June 17, 2011

• Afghanistan: A choose your own adventure classic.
• Turkey: The sick man of Europe checking out of the hospital?
• Lebanon: Don’t worry, everything is under control.

June 3, 2011

• Pakistan: The officer is not a gentleman
• Egypt: Same great dictatorial rule, only half the calories
• Yemen: Saleh, time to go
• Afghanistan: Karzai sees his shadow

May 20, 2011

• Pakistan: From Harvard to the ‘Hood, Obama owns Pakistan
• Iran: Whatever happened to the Basij?
• Syria: A little uprising humor

May 6, 2011

• Iran:  No nukes is good nukes?
• Turkey: New tollbooth on the Black Sea
• Turkey: Check one box: Are you a) Turkish b) family c) a child or d) looking for a good time?

April 29, 2011

• Lebanon:  Hizbullah should step up to the plate
• Iran: Rift exposes the limits of presidential power
• Sudan: Division not as smooth as expected

April 22, 2011

• Arab World: The second wave’s here
• Pirates: Bringing enemies together in different ways
• Turkey:  Why things could get a little louder...

April 15, 2011

• Yemen: Saleh on simmer?
• Bahrain: How’s that double standard working out for ya?
• Iraq: Dispatches from the Kurdish Spring

April 8, 2011

• Syria: ‘We now interrupt your regularly scheduled protest’
• Israel/Palestine: Stuff heading for the fan
• US-Pakistani Relations: We still agree on drones.

April 1, 2011

• Libya: It’s gotten spooky
• State-run media:  Is this a joke?
• Chad: Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask

March 25, 2011

• Libya: Dropping the barrel?
• Syria: A somber situation and a breakout
• And now for something completely different…

March 11, 2011

• Saudi Arabia: The smart money’s on stability
• Egypt: What will become of ‘people power?’
  
• Tunisia: Far from over
  

March 4, 2011

• Iraq: Don't forget about it
• Syria:  How a terminal illness spared the regime.
• Oman: Will Sinbad go on strike?

February 25, 2011

• Libya: Qadafi’s  u-turn to the West - a final gamble?
• Yemen: Ali Abdallah Saleh dances with snakes...
• Lebanon: A model for stability?  No, seriously.