Listed below are articles and documents of topical interest that you may have missed. Inclusion here does not indicate endorsement of the views expressed.
2013
The Gulf:
The GCC’s national employment challenge
Steffen Hertog. Washington Post, July 31
Middle East:
The fire of revolution still burns
Gilbert Achcar, Socialist Worker, 16 January
Middle East:
The Arab world into the unknown
Peter Harling and Sarah Birke, Arabist blog, 14 January
Middle East:
Ethnicity and the future of the Levant
Joshua Landis and Qifa Nabki, 18 December
Egypt:
A Christopher Hitchens dream: Atheism on the rise in Egypt
Khaled Diab, Salon, 27 October
Egypt:
Atheists Rise in Egypt
Magdy Samaan, The ZAM Chronicle, 17 October
The Gulf:
The Last of the Sheiks?
Christopher Davidson, New York Times, 18 October
The Gulf:
Kings for All Seasons: How the Middle East’s Monarchies Survived the Arab Spring
Gregory Gause, Brookings Doha, September (PDF)
Bahrain:
The Brotherhood in Bahrain
Asharq al-Awsat, 22 June
Yemen:
A day in Sanaa reveals the state of Yemen's national dialogue
Adam Baron, The National, 15 June
Algeria:
Comments on Algeria
The Moor Next Door blog, 9 May
Egypt:
Egypt’s new constitution: challenges for religious freedom and related rights
Katrina Lantos Swett. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 12 March
Yemen:
Yemen's National Dialogue
Collected analysis from the Project for Middle East Political Science, 21 March
Jordan:
Monarch in the Middle
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 18 March
Egypt:
The Shias: Egypt's forgotten Muslim minority
Zeinab El-Gundy, Ahram Online, 18 March
Iraq:
The democracy boondoggle in Iraq
Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy, 5 March
Egypt:
Egypt and the rise of Islamism
Charles Holmes, Conservative Middle East Council, February
Saudi Arabia:
My attempt to break the driving ban in Saudi Arabia
Omaima Al Najjar, 27 February
Egypt:
Egypt's music of protest: from Sayyid Darwish to DJ Haha
Ted Swedenburg, MER265 (Winter 2012)
Iraq:
George Bush or George Galloway? Ten years on from the Iraq war protests
Chris Doyle, CAABU, 14 February
Yemen:
A lasting peace? Yemen's long journey to national reconciliation
Ibrahim Sharqieh, Brookings Doha Center, February 2013
Bahrain:
Gerrymandering in Bahrain: Twenty-one persons, one vote
Fahad Desmukh, Bahrain Watch, 11 February
Saudi Arabia:
America's Saudi problem
Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy, 24 January
Jordan:
Jordan’s 2013 parliamentary elections at a glance
Impatient Bedouin blog, 23 January
Arab uprisings:
As the appeal of Islamism fades, Arab secularism can soar
Jasmine Roman, The National, 12 January
Bahrain:
Don't leave our public relations in the hands of PR mercenaries
Anwar Abdulrahman, Gulf Daily News, 8 January
Egypt:
As Al Azhar is thrown to politics, extremists are the only winners
Hassan Hassan, The National, 2 January
Saudi Arabia:
Saudi national identity
Abdullah Hamidaddin, Riyadh Bureau, 1 January
2012
Egypt:
The new Egyptian constitution: an initial assessment of its merits and flaws
Zaid al-Ali, Open Democracy, 26 December
Iraq:
Identity politics in Iraq: how much of it is about identity?
Fanar Haddad, Near East Quarterly, December 2012
Jordan:
Our journey to forge our path towards democracy
A discussion paper by King Abdullah, 30 December
Saudi Arabia:
Will Saudi Arabia ever change?
Hugh Eakin, New York Review of Books, 12 December
Arab uprisings:
Fixing the Arab Citizen-State Relationship
Rami Khouri, Agence Global, 22 December
Syria:
Assad's Playbook Is Now Empty
Robin Wright, The Atlantic, 14 December
Yemen:
Press freedom in the shifting Yemeni media landscape
Peter Townson, Doha Centre for Media Freedom, 10 December
Yemen:
Yemen's rocky roadmap
Adam Baron, Foreign Policy, 10 December
Egypt:
Egypt's political crisis
Ellis Goldberg, Foreign Policy, 10 December
Egypt:
Egypt's constitution conundrum
Nathan Brown, Foreign Affairs 9 December
Egypt:
In Egypt the elite may have changed, but the revolution continues
Jack Shenker, The Guardian, 6 December
Jordan:
Jordan’s King Abdullah continues to buy time
Impatient Bedouin blog, 6 December
Syria:
Why Assad won't use his chemical weapons
Charles Blair, Foreign Policy, 6 December
Jordan:
Jordanian tremors: elusive consensus, deepening discontent
Julien Barnes-Dacey, European Council on Foreign Relations. November 2012
Bahrain:
British policy in Bahrain
Report by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, 26 November
Oman:
"Qaboos can make mistakes like anybody else"
Marc Valeri, Jadaliyya, 18 November
Bahrain:
Assessing Bahrain’s implementation of the BICI report
Project on Middle East Democracy, 15 November
Jordan:
Why not Jordan?
Pete Moore. MERIP, 13 November
Egypt
Egypt's emerging revolution of the mind
Christopher de Bellaigue. BBC, 13 November
Syria
The Survivor
Randa Slim explains why Bashar al-Assad is still in power. Foreign Policy, 12 November
Arab uprisings:
The Left in time of revolution
Fawwaz Traboulsi, Jadaliyya blog, 9 November
Egypt:
Habemus baba
The Economist blog on the new Coptic Pope, 5 November
Arab uprisings:
What Tunisia did right
Steven Fish and Katherine Michel, Foreign Policy, 2 November
Yemen:
Journey to a land in limbo
Abigail Fielding-Smith in Aden. Financial Times, 2 November
Syria:
The revolution becomes moreIslamist
Robin Yassin-Kassab, Qunfuz blog, 1 November 2012
Arab uprisings:
This is not a revolution
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, New York Review of Books, 8 November
Egypt:
The Brotherhood in power: governance kills the project
Ibrahim El-Houdaiby, Ahram Online, 31 October 2012
Kuwait:
Kuwait's historic citizen agitation is worth watching
Rami Khouri, Agence Global, 1 October
Egypt:
Draft constitution
Translated into English by IDEA
Syria:
Do ceasefires ever work?
Page Fortna, Foreign Policy, 26 October
Kuwait:
A boiling kettle: Kuwait's escalating political crisis
Fahed al-Sumait, Jadaliyya, 26 October
Lebanon:
Was Michel Samaha set up by Wissam al-Hassan?
Qifa Nabki blog, 24 October
Arab uprisings:
The new Salafi politics
A collection of essays from POMEPS, 16 October
Saudi Arabia:
Twitter gives Saudi Arabia a revolution of its own
Robert F Worth, New York Times, 20 October
