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The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East by Reuel Marc Gerecht
The promise of democracy for Muslims offers something historically unparalleled. But how powerful is the idea of democracy in the Middle East? Could the region actually be at the beginnin...
From: HooverInstitution
Trial of a Thousand Years by Charles Hill
“A Muslim has no nationality except his religious beliefs,” said Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, a key figure in the world of political Islam who was executed by the secular regime in his homeland ...
From: HooverInstitution
The End of Modern History in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
With the ending of global strategic confrontation between superpowers, those in the Middle East must adjust to a new reality: to accept final responsibility for their own affairs, to make...
From: HooverInstitution
The Myth of the Great Satan by Abbas Milani
A New Look at America's Relations with Iran The founder of the Iranian regime, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, used the Qoranic moniker of the Great Satan to refer to America—as much a show...
From: HooverInstitution
Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas by John Hughes
Lessons from Indonesia WINNING THE WAR OF IDEAS In the decade since United States Information Agency was dismantled and its remnants inserted into the Department of State, more than thi...
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Torn Country: Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism by Zeyno Baran
For centuries, Islam and the West have been competing to define Turkish identity. Decades of close cooperation between Turkey and its NATO allies generated Western confidence that Turkey ...
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The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan by Ziad Haider
Since its inception in 1947, the idea of Pakistan has been a contested one. Today, Pakistan faces a militant Islamist threat that its elected government is trying to combat in fractious c...
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Islamism and the Future of the Christians of the Middle East by Habib C. Malik
Christianity may have “won the world,” in the sense of being the most widespread religion in history with the largest number of adherents, but it is steadily losing ground in and around i...
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Saudi Arabia and the New Strategic Landscape by Joshua Teitelbaum
In the new post–cold war strategic landscape of the Middle East, the United States’ most important Arab ally, Saudi Arabia, plays a key role. The will and the resources of Saudi Arabia ar...
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Syria through Jihadist Eyes by Nibras Kazimi
The regime in Syria is in league with the theocrats in Iran, facilitating their access to Lebanon and to the Palestinian territories, but hints that it is open to accommodation with Israe...
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Freedom or Terror: Europe Faces Jihad by Russell A. Berman
In September 2001, Europeans might have felt comfortable in thinking that Al-Qaeda was only a scourge to the United States; some presumably indulged in the unkind speculation that the Uni...
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Jihad in the Arabian Sea by Camille Pecastaing
The lands and coasts across the Bab el Mandeb—the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean—at the southern tip of the Red Sea, have for centuries had a forbidding repu...
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