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Iran’s National Security And Nuclear Diplomacy: An Insider’s Take
Farideh Farhi* | 9 Aug 2012
National Security and Nuclear Diplomacy was published in Iran during the autumn of 2011 but most people only learned about it a few months ago after it was made available during Tehran’s International Book Fair in May. It’s significant because the author is Hassan Rowhani, the country’s nuclear negotiator for 22 months during the Khatami presidency –...Separating Religion from Politics: the Future of Egyptian Democracy
Ammar Maleki* | 27 Jul 2012
Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood member, Mohamed Morsi One year after the fall of Arab dictators, Islamist political parties have emerged victorious in the first democratic elections in both Tunisia and Egypt. With this success, the question “what is the prospect of democratic change in Muslim countries after the Arab Spring?” is more pertinent than...#MuftahChat: Debating & Defying Stereotypes about the Middle East
Muftah Editors | 12 Jul 2012
Join the Muftah team at the hashtag #MuftahChat on the first and third Wednesday of every month at 12:30 pm Eastern Standard Time for a Twitter discussion of all things Middle East. Themes will include policy, religion, political transformation, human rights, and culture, among other topics. Everyone with an interest in the Middle East and North Africa is invited...The War of Words Against Iran’s MEK
Anonymous* | 22 Jun 2012
Members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq For the last several months, articles about the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group, have spread like wildfire through the mainstream U.S. press. The firestorm began in early February 2012 after anonymous White House officials accused the group of assassinating several Iranian nuclear scientists with the help of...Notes from Kansastan: Subversive Photos of Palestinians Living!
Massoud Hayoun* | 20 Jun 2012
On the road from Jenin to Nablus, West Bank, Palestine (Photo credit: Almonroth) According to a report from the Washington Post today, Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in a Palestinian village in the West Bank, after a court order to remove apartment buildings housing some 30 settler families. This is news that while terrifying is not news, likely because...Negotiating with Iran: Success is “A Subsequent Meeting”
Sherry Hakimi* | 8 Aug 2012
The definition of a successful round of negotiations with Iran is the agreement of “a subsequent meeting.” During a speaking engagement at Harvard University the week before the latest round of P5+1-Iran...More On The Islamic Republic’s Syria Policy
Farideh Farhi* | 22 Jul 2012
(Source: http://blogs.cfr.org/cook/2011/05/09/unholy-alliance-on-theatlantic-com/assad-ahmadinejad/) I wrote a couple of days ago about the reactive nature of Iran’s Syria ‘strategy’ but what I really meant...The Syrian Uprising: The View from Tehran
Annie Tracy Samuel* | 9 Jul 2012
The violent confrontation between Bashar Assad’s regime and opposition forces, now fifteen months old, has generated much concern in Iran, on two counts. First, the collapse of the regime would present a...Call for Submissions – Special Issue: Iran and Its Neighbors, Post-Arab Uprising
Muftah Editors | 20 Jun 2012
Muftah.org, a digital foreign policy magazine on the Middle East and North Africa, and InsideIRAN.org, a journal of analysis and research written primarily by scholars and activists who recently left Iran, will...The Moscow Talks: A Policy Recommendation Paper for Iran
Shirin Shafaie* | 17 Jun 2012
Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili (L) attends a meeting of the P5+1 in Istanbul on April 14, 2012. (Photo credit:TOLGA ADANALI/AFP/Getty Images) Iran should not allow the Moscow talks (18 June, 2012) to...
