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The New Arab Revolt

What Happened, What It Means, and What Comes Next

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Table of Contents

September/October 1995

Essay September/October 1995

The Sorrows of Egypt: A Tale of Two Men

January/February 2002

Essay January/February 2002

Back to the Bazaar

Essay May/June 2005

Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East

March/April 2009

March/April 2009

Adrift on the Nile

The Limits of the Opposition in Egypt

Postscript March 26, 2010

Is El Baradei Egypt's Hero?

Mohamed El Baradei and the Chance for Reform

January 16, 2011

Snapshot January 16, 2011

Morning in Tunisia

The Frustrations of the Arab World Boil Over

Michele Penner Angrist

January 30, 2011

Letter From January 30, 2011

Letter From Cairo

The People's Military in Egypt?

February 02, 2011

Snapshot February 02, 2011

The U.S.-Egyptian Breakup

Washington's Limited Options in Cairo

February 03, 2011

Snapshot February 03, 2011

The Muslim Brotherhood After Mubarak

What the Brotherhood Is and How it Will Shape the Future

Carrie Rosefsky Wickham

February 07, 2011

Snapshot February 07, 2011

Egypt's Democratic Mirage

How Cairo’s Authoritarian Regime Is Adapting to Preserve Itself

February 08, 2011

Snapshot February 08, 2011

Overcoming Fear and Anxiety in Tel Aviv

How Israel Can Turn Egypt's Unrest Into an Opportunity

February 11, 2011

Snapshot February 11, 2011

Mubarakism Without Mubarak

Why Egypt’s Military Will Not Embrace Democracy

February 14, 2011

Snapshot February 14, 2011

Postcolonial Time Disorder

Egypt and the Middle East, Stuck in the Past

James D. Le Sueur

February 15, 2011

Snapshot February 15, 2011

Egypt's Constitutional Ghosts

Deciding the Terms of Cairo’s Democratic Transition

Nathan J. Brown

February 21, 2011

Snapshot February 21, 2011

A Tunisian Solution for Egypt’s Military

Why Egypt's Military Will Not Be Able to Govern

Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg

Comment May/June 2011

The Fall of the Pharaoh

How Hosni Mubarak’s Reign Came to an End

Comment May/June 2011

The Black Swan of Cairo

How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous

Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Blyth

February 18, 2011

Snapshot February 18, 2011

Green Movement 2.0?

How U.S. Support Could Lead the Opposition to Victory

February 25, 2011

Letter From February 25, 2011

Letter From Sana’a

Saleh on the Edge

Abdullah al-Qubati

Snapshot March 02, 2011

Bahrain’s Shia Question

What the United States Gets Wrong About Sectarianism

Kristin Smith Diwan

Snapshot March 03, 2011

Rage Comes to Baghdad

Will Iraq's Recent Protests Lead to Revolt?

Snapshot March 07, 2011

The Sturdy House That Assad Built

Why Damascus Is Not Cairo

Michael Bröning

Snapshot March 16, 2011

Rageless in Riyadh

Why the Al Saud Dynasty Will Remain

F. Gregory Gause III

Snapshot March 25, 2011

Syria's Assad No Longer in Vogue

What Everyone Got Wrong About Bashar al-Assad

Snapshot March 31, 2011

Meanwhile in the Maghreb

Have Algeria and Morocco Avoided North Africa’s Unrest?

Azzedine Layachi

Snapshot April 05, 2011

Bahrain's Base Politics

The Arab Spring and America’s Military Bases

Alexander Cooley and Daniel H. Nexon

Snapshot March 23, 2011

Let Them Eat Bread

How Food Subsidies Prevent (and Provoke) Revolutions in the Middle East

February 28, 2011

Snapshot February 28, 2011

Libya's Terra Incognita

Who and What Will Follow Qaddafi?

Frederic Wehrey

Snapshot March 16, 2011

What Intervention Looks Like

How the West Can Aid the Libyan Rebels

Robert E. Hunter

Snapshot March 20, 2011

The Folly of Protection

Is Intervention Against Qaddafi’s Regime Legal and Legitimate?

Michael W. Doyle

Snapshot March 21, 2011

To the Shores of Tripoli

Why Operation Odyssey Dawn Should Not Stop At Benghazi

Dirk Vandewalle

Snapshot March 24, 2011

A New Lease on Life for Humanitarianism

How Operation Odyssey Dawn Will Revive RtoP

Stewart Patrick

Snapshot March 28, 2011

The Mythology of Intervention

Debating the Lessons of History in Libya

Snapshot March 28, 2011

Flight of the Valkyries?

What Gender Does and Doesn’t Tell Us About Operation Odyssey Dawn

Charli Carpenter

Snapshot March 30, 2011

Winning Ugly in Libya

What the United States Should Learn From Its War in Kosovo

Michael O'Hanlon

Comment May/June 2011

Demystifying the Arab Spring

Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya

Comment May/June 2011

Understanding the Revolutions of 2011

Weakness and Resilience in Middle Eastern Autocracies

Jack A. Goldstone

Comment May/June 2011

The Heirs of Nasser

Who Will Benefit From the Second Arab Revolution?

Michael Scott Doran

Comment May/June 2011

The Rise of the Islamists

How Islamists Will Change Politics, and Vice Versa

Comment May/June 2011

Terrorism After the Revolutions

How Secular Uprisings Could Help (or Hurt) Jihadists