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The Arabs: A History

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The Kurds of Iran: A Look at their Past, Present and Future

3/16/2010 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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3/18/2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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The Middle East Economy in 2010: Exceptions amid the Downturn

3/25/2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Tunisia: What Lies Ahead?

4/1/2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Drone Attacks on the Quetta Shura? Pros and Cons
Speakers: Selig S. Harrison, Ahmar Mustikhan, Andrew Eiva, Raja Karthikeya, Ashraf Kakar, Marvin Weinbaum
March 5, 2010

Inside the Taliban
Speakers: Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn
March 3, 2010

Pakistan's Counterinsurgency Strategies:What's Working and What's Not
Speaker: Haider Mullick
February 24, 2010

Writing on Culture: The Missing Factor in Discussions on the Middle East
Speaker: Andrea Rugh
February 23, 2010

The Khamenei-Ahmadinejad Regime and the Challenge of the Iranian Opposition
Speakers: Ali Alfoneh, Alex Vatanka
February 3, 2010

Russian-Iranian Relations in the Obama Era
Speaker: Dr. Mark N. Katz
January 28, 2010

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Migration and the Gulf

The flow of ideas, people, and commerce across national boundaries has been occurring with breathtaking rapidity in the broader Middle East, as elsewhere. These increasingly dense exchanges have generated new threats and vulnerabilities that have tended to impact women, children, and the poorest members of society disproportionately. At the same time, however, they have given people more resources and opportunities with which to shape their lives and their futures.

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  Policy Insights

Turkey and Israel: What Lies Behind the Recent Volte Face

By Gonul Tol

It seems that the Turkish-Israeli love affair of the initial post-Cold War days is over and a new era in bilateral relations has begun. The volte face in Turkey’s policy vis-à-vis Israel has been attributed to a range of issues....Only scant attention has been paid to the changing geopolitical and structural factors which have driven Turkish policy in the Middle East – and toward Israel in particular.

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Economic Peace in the West Bank and the Fayyad Plan: Are They Working?

Adam Robert Green

This Policy Brief asks whether the muted Palestinian economic revival can be deepened and sustained in the absence of a peace agreement with Israel or a unified Palestinian leadership.

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Beyond Iraq's National Elections: Planning a New Phase in American Policy

Charles W. Dunne

 

Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections may prove another vital step in the country’s transition to a stable democracy.  Progress toward a less-sectarian Iraqi politics has been evident since the 2009 provincial elections.

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Trajectories of Change in Omani Poetry

by Mara Revkin

Driving down a thoroughfare studded with beauty parlors and cell phone stores, it’s hard to believe that less than 40 years ago... 

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