Middle East and North Africa

List of Middle East and North Africa articles

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  First Round of Syria Peace Talks Wraps Up

  The Middle East Channel

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  Mary Casey-Baker, Joshua Haber

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  The Original Sin of the Syria Chemical Deal

  The Cable

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  Colum Lynch, Noah Shachtman

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  Iraq’s Abject Lessons for Mexico’s Self-Defense Forces

  Passport

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  J. Dana Stuster

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  The Belly Dancer and the Brotherhood: Meet the Exotic Performer Trying to Take Down Egypt’s Islamists

  Passport

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  Katelyn Fossett

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  Why Did Saudi Arabia Buy Chinese Missiles?

  The real question is why are we only hearing about it now.

  COLUMN

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  Jeffrey Lewis

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  How ScarJo Endorsing a Soda Machine Became an International Controversy

  Passport

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  J. Dana Stuster

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  Iraqi Forces Free Hostages After Firefight at Ministry Building

  The Middle East Channel

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  Mary Casey-Baker, Joshua Haber

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  Intel Chiefs: Syria a ‘Huge Magnet’ for International Terrorists

  The Cable

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  John Hudson

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  The Vocabulary of Sectarianism

  The Middle East Channel

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  Aaron Y. Zelin, Phillip Smyth

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  Turkey’s Central Bank Hikes Rates Stemming Lira Drop

  The Middle East Channel

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  Mary Casey-Baker, Joshua Haber

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  Sisi and the Strong Man

  Is Egypt's president-in-waiting turning back the clock -- to the Nasser era?

  Argument

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  Max Strasser

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  The Deafening U.S. Silence on Saudi Rights

  The Middle East Channel

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  Adam Coogle

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  Morsi Stands Trial as Egyptian Army Backs Sisi Presidential Bid

  The Middle East Channel

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  Mary Casey-Baker, Joshua Haber

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  The General Rises

  Egypt’s new Field Marshal-in-chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, looks ready to seize the presidency. But is it more than he can handle?

  Dispatch

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  Gregg Carlstrom

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  Congress Clears Apache Sale to Iraq

  The Cable

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  John Hudson