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25th April 2013 - Scripps Howard News Service

Defense in the Age of Jihad

Clifford D. May

Defense policies are not created in a vacuum. They are designed to meet threats. Over time, threats change in ways that are difficult to predict. In the past, America’s enemies generally...

18th February 2013 - The Weekly Standard

Egypt Against Itself

This week marks the second anniversary of the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Two years after the refrain “the people want to topple the regime” filled Tahrir Square, it is now Egypt itself that is toppling.

11th February 2013 - CTV News

News Update

Khairi Abaza

FDD's Khairi Abaza says that the violent protests in Tunisia are a response to a slain opposition leader and concern of an Islamist regime.

8th February 2013 - FDD Policy Brief

Egypt’s Never-Ending Revolution

Khairi Abaza

Since January 25, Egypt has witnessed an unprecedented wave of nationwide protests which have left more than 60 people dead. The country remains in a state of lawlessness.

23rd January 2013 - FDD Policy Brief

Another Crisis in the Horn?

Dawit Giorgis

Reports coming from the Eritrean capital of Asmara on Monday indicated that rebels had thrown the small country, northwest of the Horn of Africa, into chaos. The rebel troops had captured the Ministry...

10th December 2012 - Cited by Daniel Pipes, The Washington Times

Islamists are Worse Than Dictators

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Who is worse, President Mohammed Morsi, the elected Islamist seeking to apply Islamic law in Egypt, or former President Hosni Mubarak, the dictator ousted for trying to start a dynasty? More broadly...

10th October 2012 - NPR

Better To Elect Islamists Than Have Dictators?

Reuel Marc Gerecht

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable," economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, dictators have been toppled and new leaders have begun to...

10th October 2012 - Cited by Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post

A Conservative Split Over the Middle East

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Mitt Romney’s speech on foreign affairs this week was surprisingly moderate. Rhetorically it was full of sound and fury but, on closer examination, it signified no major change of policy. Romney affirmed the timetable...

2nd October 2012 - The Long War Journal

2 Islamist Militants Arrested in Sinai by Egyptian Forces

On Oct. 1, two Islamist militants were arrested by Egyptian forces near the city of el-Arish in the North Sinai governorate. The militants, who have since been transferred to Cairo, reportedly...

1st October 2012 - Foreign Policy

Rebels With a Cause, But Not Much Consensus

As President Bashar al-Assad's forces disintegrate, the Syrian civil war is devolving into a battle between Sunni rebel groups and Alawite-dominated militias fighting in support of the old...

11th August 2012 - The Caravan, Hoover Institution

Engaging Fundamentalists

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Given the growing strength and electoral triumphs of fundamentalists in the Middle East, many in Washington fear that the administration just can’t handle Islamists.

17th July 2012 - Gunpowder & Lead

Islamism in the Popular Imagination

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The term “Islamist” has been bandied about frequently since revolutionary events gripped the Arab world last year. It is a term meant to signify those, including political parties.

27th June 2012 - Tablet

What’s Next for Egypt?

What’s going to happen in Egypt now that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi has been elected president? That’s the question weighing heavily on everyone’s minds—perhaps no one’s as much as Benjamin Netanyahu’s.

11th June 2012 - Fox News

Egypt’s Future Uncertain as Mubarak’s Health Worsens

Khairi Abaza

With Egypt soon to head into the final round of its first presidential elections, deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak looks to be on his last legs. Though a court recently sentenced him to life in prison, Mubarak looks not to have much life left in him.

7th June 2012 - Scripps Howard News Service

The Battle of Syria

Clifford D. May

They say politics makes strange bedfellows. But even stranger are the bedfellows that national security policy makes. Andrew C. McCarthy, a friend and colleague, provides a stunning example.

25th April 2012 - The National Interest

Mubarak’s Old Stalwarts Vie for Supremacy

Khairi Abaza

In late May, Egyptians will vote in the first free presidential election in their history. But despite parliamentary elections and other inklings of democracy, the forces of the old dictatorship under deposed President Hosni Mubarak still hold the cards.

19th April 2012 - Scripps Howard News Service

Liberate ‘Zones of Electronic Repression’!

Clifford D. May

Islamists shouldn’t be allowed to use Western technology to crush dissent.

19th January 2012 - Scripps Howard News Service

Militant Islamism, Islamism, Islam

Clifford D. May

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has described the Muslim Brotherhood as “secular.” Vice President Joseph Biden recently said the Taliban “is not our enemy.”

18th January 2012 - Fox News

Defcon 3

Clifford D. May

Are Islamists replacing autocrats in Egypt and Turkey?

9th January 2012 - Syndicated

The John Batchelor Show

Sebastian Gorka

Developments in the Middle East, particularly 70% Muslim Brotherhood/Islamist election victory in Cairo, Erdogan's arrest of generals (and his alleged cancer) and developments in Syria.

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Khairi Abaza

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Tony Badran

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Mark Dubowitz

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Director, Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization

al-qaeda, energy

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Senior Fellow

cia, iran, iraq

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