Zaid Al-Ali

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

Articles by Zaid Al-Ali

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

July 7, 2025, 6:45 AM

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa

The New Syria Is Run Like the Old

Argument

April 16, 2025, 12:40 PM

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

January 13, 2025, 10:37 AM

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How Maliki Ruined Iraq

Argument

June 19, 2014, 5:20 PM

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Iraq’s House of Cards

Argument

April 29, 2014, 11:33 PM

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Egypt’s Missed Constitutional Moment

The Middle East Channel

December 17, 2013, 7:52 PM

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Egypt’s constitutional morass

The Middle East Channel

August 23, 2013, 4:30 PM

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Another Egyptian constitutional declaration

The Middle East Channel

July 9, 2013, 7:30 PM

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The Constitutional Court’s mark on Egypt’s elections

The Middle East Channel

June 6, 2013, 6:47 PM

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Egypt’s constitution swings into action

The Middle East Channel

Zaid Al-Ali, Nathan J. Brown

March 27, 2013, 1:29 PM

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