In Libya, Muammar Ghaddafi’s Son Returns to Politics
October 20 marked six years since Libyan dictator Muammar Ghaddafi was killed during the U.S.-driven, NATO intervention in that country's civil uprising. Since...
October 23rd, 2017 
Fatima Mohie-EldinItaly’s Deal with Libya to Reduce Sea Migration Leaves Refugees Suffering
With record numbers of refugees crossing into Europe from the Mediterranean in the past two years, Italy, which is a frequent point of entry, has sought to...
September 11th, 2017 Book Review: Unfinished Revolutions: Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia after the Arab Spring by Ibrahim Fraihat
During the Arab Spring uprisings, people in various Arab countries succeeded in overthrowing their authoritarian leaders. But, as Ibrahim Fraihat notes in the...
August 21st, 2017 
Nishad SanzagiriArab Autocrats & Their Foreign Sponsors Are Pretending the Arab Spring Never Happened
July 3, 2017 marks the fourth anniversary of the coup that brought down Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammad Morsi, and brought...
July 7th, 2017 
Matthew DeMaioIs the United States Still the Greatest Power in the Middle East?
The Middle East today is among the world’s least stable regions. The Iraq War in 2003, the Arab Spring uprisings in 2010-2011, and the eruption of civil wars...
June 12th, 2017 
Youmna Al Hourani