Zaid Al-Ali

Zaid Al-Ali is a visiting fellow at Princeton University and the author of Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution.

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French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein look up during a visit to the Cadarache nuclear research center in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France, on Sept. 6, 1975.
French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein look up during a visit to the Cadarache nuclear research center in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France, on Sept. 6, 1975.

The Lessons of Osirak for Israel and Iran

Analysis
Zaid Al-Ali, Haddon Barth
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa

The New Syria Is Run Like the Old

Argument
Zaid Al-Ali
A man waves a Syrian flag as people celebrate the fall of the Assad regime outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Dec. 13, 2024.
A man waves a Syrian flag as people celebrate the fall of the Assad regime outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Dec. 13, 2024.

Syria’s Troubling New Order

Analysis
Zaid Al-Ali
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How Maliki Ruined Iraq

Argument
Zaid Al-Ali
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Iraq’s House of Cards

Argument
Zaid Al-Ali
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Egypt’s Missed Constitutional Moment

The Middle East Channel
Zaid Al-Ali
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Egypt’s constitutional morass

The Middle East Channel
Zaid Al-Ali
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Another Egyptian constitutional declaration

The Middle East Channel
Zaid Al-Ali
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The Constitutional Court’s mark on Egypt’s elections

The Middle East Channel
Zaid Al-Ali
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Egypt’s constitution swings into action

The Middle East Channel
Zaid Al-Ali, Nathan J. Brown
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