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More than two million Islamist supporters gather in Rabaa el-Adawia Square in Cairo to support then-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on June 21, 2013. Photo: Tom Bert/Shutterstock

A decade after Egypt’s revolution

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Islamists' rapid rise to power in the Middle East following the Arab Spring revolutions came to a halt following a popular revolution that swept Egypt on June 30, 2013. Several days of protests across the country were met with violence by...
President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call from the Oval Office, Monday, June 8, 2009. Credit: White House/Pete Souza.

Report: Obama offered Syria Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights

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Just a few months before the Syrian civil war erupted in March 2011, the Obama administration offered the Assad regime an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in return for severing ties with Iran...
A satellite image of the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman, Dec. 30, 2001. Credit: NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s Bahrain campaign enters a dangerous new phase

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The normalization of relations between Israel and Bahrain constitutes another significant and painful blow to Iran’s soft belly. However, unlike the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain is of particular historical, religious and political importance to...

Amid Independence Day celebrations, how Israel’s minorities view their status in the Jewish state

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With Israel’s Independence Day, the battle of the narratives over Israel’s creation begins anew with mainstream Muslim Israeli Arabs remaining highly critical of the state, despite living standards that dwarf those in Arab states...