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Libya’s Election (Editor’s Reader)

    The Middle East Channel Editors Reader #6 Votes are being counted in yesterday’s historic election to select a temporary 200 member General National Congress in Libya. The voting process itself was a resounding success, which defied the many skeptics who...

Sudan’s Protests

The Middle East Channel Editor’s Reader, #5 Last week’s outbreak of the largest wave of popular protests in Sudan in nearly two decades has opened up the possibility for change in one of the cruelest regimes in the Middle East and Africa. Few regimes are...

What Middle East academic experts think

  Political scientists specializing on the Middle East see Jordan as the Arab country most likely to experience major new mobilization during the coming year, but see Bashar al-Assad as the Arab leader most likely to lose power. They see the Obama administration...

Introducing The Editor’s Reader

What should you be reading about the politics of today’s Middle East, beyond (of course) the outstanding daily content on the Middle East Channel and the news and analysis featured in the MEC Daily Brief?   The Middle East Channel Editor’s Reader —...