The United States is struggling to overcome distrust in Egypt, where both supporters and opponents of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi blame Washington for bolstering the other side. Perhaps seeking to avoid exactly such a theme from taking hold, and in line with the recommendations of some foreign policy analysts,...

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CNN this morning posted to the top of its international online front page a report highlighting incidents in Alexandria, Egypt during which pro-Morsi Muslim Brotherhood forces attacked and then threw their teenage victims from building rooftops. The grisly footage is embedded below. CNN contextualized the video on its site with...

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Middle East analysts have traditionally outlined at least four broad categories of internal structural problems plaguing efforts to establish and stabilize a viable Palestinian state. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority government (PA) which controls the West Bank lacks sovereignty over even the Palestinian-controlled territories that they explicitly reserve for a future...

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Egyptian television during Ramadan has long leaned toward the anti-Semitic, but this year’s sampling is virulent even by the country’s usual standards. Set to broadcast during the season is the Egyptian television series “Khaybar”. The title is a reference to a Jewish oasis that in the 7th century was conquered...

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Former Egyptian Finance Minister Hazem el-Beblawi has been named Egypt’s prime minister, as the country’s military moved to stabilize political chaos that began weeks ago when millions of anti-government protesters flooded into the streets demanding the ouster of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked then-President Mohammed Morsi. Egypt’s interim president on Tuesday named liberal economist...

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Dozens of terrorists linked to Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups have entered the Sinai Peninsula from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with the intention of clashing with the Egyptian army, according to a senior Egyptian official. The official told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Egyptian authorities have observed the entry of 150 Izz al-Din al-Qassam...

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As tensions and violence in Egypt continue to simmer, some in the country are falling back into rhetorical and political tactics that have been prevalent throughout the country’s modern history. Discussing efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood to undermine Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour, the Washington Post highlights how Brotherhood officials are...

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The growing chaos in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has again spilled over beyond the country’s borders. Gas supplies to Jordan were disrupted this weekened after a pipeline was attacked near el-Arish in the Sinai desert. The attack was not the first on that particular pipeline pipeline: A security source said that...

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A scandal that shook Qatari news channel Al Jazeera this afternoon – in which 22 of the the station’s staffers in Egypt resigned over what they allege is editorial control from Doha enforcing pro-Muslim Brotherhood coverage – is the latest in a series of controversies that have battered the station’s...

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Turkey and its ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) had long sought to provide a so-called “Turkish model” for the region, providing an example of “a modern, moderate Muslim state that works.” Ankara’s aspirations had been met with “early enthusiasm” in some corners of the Western foreign policy community....

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