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Middle East Media Monitor
Middle East Media Monitor is a series within FPRI’s notable E-Note publication, reviewing a current topic in the Middle East media from the perspective of the foreign language press coverage in countries such as Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, etc. These articles focus on providing FPRI’s readership with an inside view on how some of the most relevant countries in the Middle East are covering issues of importance to the American foreign policy community.
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Post-Mubarak Egyptian Attitudes Toward Israel
As the most populous and influential Arab state, Egypt had always taken the initiative in wars, many against Israel in 1948, 1967 and 1973. A historic diplomatic breakthrough occurred in 1979, however, when Egypt agreed to terminate its state...
Read more »In Their Own Words: Al Qaeda’s View of the Arab Spring
What began as the Arab Spring, and is now being referred to as the long Arab Summer due to its inconclusive aftermath, has been commonly perceived by the media and academia as an indicator of al Qaeda’s downfall. The...
Read more »Hezbollah on Trial: Lebanese Reactions to the UN Special Tribunal’s Indictments
On June 30, after a lengthy and much delayed investigation, the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) finally issued the indictments of four individuals accused of having been involved in the plotting and execution of the assassination of Lebanese...
Read more »The Arab Summit That Wasn’t and the Deterioration of Iraqi Politics
Though Iraq has faded from the prominent place it held only a few years ago in American foreign policy circles, the current Iraqi political scene is extremely tense. Violence and corruption have not subsided as much as some had...
Read more »An Enemy from Within: the Iranian Regime and the New Political Challenge
On May 11, 2011 hardliner cleric, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, held a meeting with members of the conservative Islamic Coalition Party. Mesbah-Yazdi warned his audience against the strengthening of deviant religious thought in Iranian society. He claimed that it jeopardizes...
Read more »The Rise and (Future) Fall of a Turkish-Iranian Axis
The continuing rise of Turkey and Iran at the expense of the Arab states is troubling to the West. This is particularly the case because the parallel rise to power has been expressed in a warming of relations between...
Read more »Qaradawi’s Return and Islamic Leadership in Egypt
The revolution in Egypt has raised the specter of an Islamist takeover and theocratic rule, a repetition of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran in which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini rose to power. Such fears were worsened by the triumphant...
Read more »WikiLeaks in the Arab Press
On November 28, 2010, WikiLeaks—a non-profit media organization known for publishing secret and classified information obtained from anonymous sources—released 250,000 American diplomatic cables, detailing high-level meetings between prominent American diplomats and their international counterparts. These cables, many of which...
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