2013 will be an auspicious year for elections in the Middle East. On Tuesday, January 22, Israelis head to the polls in a snap parliamentary election to in all likelihood re-elect Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, with the only real change being the composition of his ruling...
What has become of the Arab-Israeli peace process? Recent years have seen little to no progress, though several opportunities have presented themselves. The Annapolis Summit in 2007 formally established the two-state solution, to which both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
The Arab monarchies have weathered the revolutions of the Arab Spring surprisingly well for supposedly autocratic regimes. As corrupt and parochial governments are toppled and replaced in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria (which is just a matter of time), not a single...
In the midst of the repressive Syrian regime’s all-out war against rebels and revolutionaries, the strategic Arab state of Lebanon has struggled to maintain its sovereignty and avoid entanglement in neighbouring Syria’s internal crises. Lebanon has constantly lived in the...
Much has been made in the past year about the prospects for democracy in the Arab world after the unexpected revolutions that began in Tunisia spread like wildfire throughout the rest of North Africa and the Middle East. The US-based NGO Freedom House touted the...
On October 20th, shoddy cell phone video records of the brutal beating, sodomizing, and killing of Libya’s ex-leader Colonel Moammar Gaddafi were broadcast around the world for all to see. The very next day, the National Transitional Council (NTC), the disparate coalition of...
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