by Marc Lynch | Apr 22, 2012 | Monitor
Nine days ago, the courageous Bahraini activist Alaa Shehabi wrote for Foreign Policy about the then sixty-four day hunger strike by Abd al-Hadi al-Khawaja. His death, she warned, "could mark a significant breaking point for the regime’s efforts to...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Apr 22, 2012 | Monitor
Part one of the 2d edition of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s autobiography – Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet (Knights2) – is 560 pages in translation. Written during Zawahiri’s 60th year, the text is a broad, personal look at life inside (what I will call...
by Will McCants | Apr 20, 2012 | Monitor
As I’ve said in the two previous installments, how you define and scope CVE will affect program design and implementation. The most important questions to ask are: Which population along the spectrum is the focus of the program? Who is best suited to implement...
by Will McCants | Apr 19, 2012 | Monitor
Yesterday, Mary Habeck posted a net assessment of al-Qaeda’s fortunes. After I said something uncharitable about it on Twitter, Mary was understandably annoyed. In the spirit of fairness, I will give her argument a full airing here and respond. Mary first states...
by Marc Lynch | Apr 18, 2012 | Monitor
The United Nations should establish an investigation commission to collect evidence about war crimes in Syria to prepare the ground for any future investigation, leading Arab international law expert Cherif Bassiouni told Foreign Policy during a wide-ranging interview...
