by Marc Lynch | Jun 7, 2013 | Monitor
The Middle East Channel Editor’s Blog My weekly column this week places Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s call for a sectarian jihad in Syria into the broader context of the changing Arab political public sphere and the power politics of Sunni-Shi’a incitement....
by Marc Lynch | Jun 3, 2013 | Monitor
"Of course we made mistakes" isn’t something you hear very often these days from Arab (or any other) political figures. So I found it refreshing to hear that frank admission from Hamadi al-Jebali, former Tunisian Prime Minister and current...
by Marc Lynch | Jun 3, 2013 | Monitor
In late December 2008, Dan Drezner put me in touch with Susan Glasser about her plans to relaunch Foreign Policy’s online presence. At that point, Susan and I had never met, but we agreed to get together for coffee and talk about her vision for FP. Within half...
by Marc Lynch | May 24, 2013 | Monitor
At the fourth annual conference of the Project on Middle East Political Science here at GW, I was discussant for an outstanding paper which in part explored how and why protestors "broke the barrier of fear" in hyper-repressive states such as Syria and...
by Marc Lynch | May 17, 2013 | Monitor
My column this week focuses once again on human rights issues in Saudi Arabia. I actually had a different column on an entirely different topic written and ready to run — look for it next week. But then I ran into the Saudi lawyer Abd al-Aziz Hussan here in...
