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April 23, 2013
4:14 pm

Syrian President Bahsar Assad, center, shakes hands with a member of Iran's parliamentary committee on national interest and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 22, 2013 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Hezbollah involvement in Syria called ‘war declaration’

Of Syria’s neighbors, Jordan is the weakest link, a leading Arab columnist writes

By Elhanan Miller

April 18, 2013
3:25 pm

Syrian President Bashar Assad in an image from video broadcast on Syrian state television Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

‘Israel will wage the next gulf war’

Assad’s latest TV appearance, threatening Jordan and the West, irks Arab commentators

By Elhanan Miller

March 28, 2013
11:43 am

An instructor teaches Syrian rebels to use a rocket-propelled grenade launcher near Idlib, Syria, in March. (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Satan comes to Jordan

Elsewhere, Syrian rebels are denied weapons, again, but get a first embassy in Qatar

By Michael Bassin

March 11, 2013
12:18 pm

Egyptian motorists turn back with their vehicles after protesters closed the main street by the Nile river in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 10, 2013 (Photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser).

Egypt shuts down

Energy crisis drives taxi and bus operators to cease work; police officers’ strike prompts debate about ‘private security committees’

By Michael Bassin

March 6, 2013
2:34 pm

An Egyptian protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask runs during clashes with security at the entrance of Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian revolution, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 5, 20 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Egypt slips into a security void

John Kerry, visiting Qatar, discusses arming Syrian rebels

By Elhanan Miller

February 6, 2013
4:45 pm

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the victory sign as he attends the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Ahmadinejad’s awkward Cairo moment

Embarrassing press conference exposes Sunni-Shiite rift; Tunisian political assassination sparks fear of renewed turmoil

By Elhanan Miller

December 31, 2012
8:19 am

Protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, last December (Photo credit: AP)

Iraq’s Maliki ‘in the eye of the storm’

Mass anti-government demonstrations spread across Sunni-dominated territory; Syrian rebels in Israel discussing Eli Cohen’s remains

By Michael Bassin

December 19, 2012
3:01 pm

Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in 2007 (photo credit: AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi president suffers a stroke and Egyptian protesters return to the streets

Series of resignations throws Egypt’s political scene into disarray

By Elhanan Miller

December 16, 2012
12:41 pm

An Egyptian woman casts her vote during a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egyptians, it seems, say yes to new constitution

Iran threatens ‘world war’ over Patriot missiles in Turkey

By Elhanan Miller

November 27, 2012
6:42 pm

Egyptians carry a protester wounded in clashes with security forces near Tahrir square, where an opposition rally has been called for to voice rejection of President Morsi's seizure of near absolute powers, in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Peter Hartwell)

Egypt continues to quake as Syrian opposition closes in on Damascus

‘Egypt is fighting the battle of us all,’ writes A-Sharq Al-Awsat editor

By Elhanan Miller

November 25, 2012
12:51 pm

An Egyptian protester drags a security barrier during clashes outside the country's high court in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, November 24, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Asad)

Egypt slips back into revolutionary mode

The standoff between secular and religious overshadows all other news

By Elhanan Miller

November 22, 2012
1:55 pm

Palestinians celebrate in the streets of Gaza as Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement agreed on Wednesday to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire to halt an eight-day conflict November 21, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Arab glee and satisfaction follow ceasefire

Columnists weigh the pros and cons of the understandings reached with Israel

By Elhanan Miller

November 21, 2012
2:15 pm

Palestinians inspect damaged buildings following overnight Israeli air strikes on the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on November 20, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90)

Winners and losers in Gaza

Arab columnists try to figure out who stands most to gain from an escalation in fighting

By Elhanan Miller

November 18, 2012
2:07 pm

An Iron Dome missile is launched in Tel Aviv, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza, Saturday, November 17, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

A success for Palestinian ‘resistance’?

Israeli-Hamas offensive overshadows Syrian crisis and tragic train wreck in Egypt

By Elhanan Miller

November 13, 2012
4:58 pm

In this Nov. 11, 2012, file photo, George Sabra, the new head of the Syrian National Council, signs an agreement with the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces during a meeting in Doha, Qatar (photo credit: AP/Osama Faisal)

Arab world embraces new Syrian opposition

‘Although we, the Arabs, created our own problems, Israel does not hesitate to pour oil on the fire,’ writes A-Sharq Al-Awsat editor

By Elhanan Miller

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