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Afghanistan and Pakistan

Musharraf’s Opening to Israel (March 2, 2006)

Afghanistan's Presidential Elections: Spreading Democracy or a Sham? (October 8, 2004)

Elections in Pakistan: Turning Tragedy Into Farce (October 18, 2002)

The Band Played On: Continued Military Rule in Pakistan (May 9, 2002)

Solutions Not Imminent for Afghan Displaced and Refugees (December 4, 2001)

Pakistan, "Pro-Taliban Elements" and Sectarian Strife (November 16, 2001)

Aid Drops in Afghanistan (October 10, 2001)

Afghanistan's Refugee Crisis (September 24, 2001)

Pakistan's Dilemma (September 19, 2001)

Afghan Girls' Struggle for Schooling (July 6, 2000)

Algeria

An Algerian Presidential Free-for-All (April 6, 2004)

Musical Chairs in Algeria (June 4, 2002)

Algeria: Flooding and Muddied State-Society Relations (December 11, 2001)

The Kabyle Riots: Repression and Alienation in Algeria (May 11, 2001)

Arab and Muslim Americans

Targeting Muslims, at Ashcroft's Discretion (March 14, 2003)

Snipers and the Panic Over Five Percent Islamic Hip-Hop (November 10, 2002)

Arabian Peninsula

The Election Yemen Was Supposed to Have (October 3, 2006)

Kuwait’s Annus Mirabilis (September 7, 2006)

Foreboding About the Future in Yemen (April 3, 2006)

Three Emirs and a Tale of Two Transitions (February 10, 2006)

Salih’s Road to Reelection (January 13, 2006)

Cracks in the Yemeni System (July 28, 2005)

Women's Rights and the Meaning of Citizenship in Kuwait (February 10, 2005)

Kuwait's Parliament Considers Women's Political Rights, Again (September 2, 2004)

Violence and the Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia (November 13, 2003)

How Yemen's Ruling Party Secured an Electoral Landslide (May 16, 2003)

The Death and Life of Jarallah Omar (December 31, 2002)

Understanding Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia (October 24, 2001)

Investigating the Cole Bombing (September 6, 2001)

Yemen and the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (October 18, 2000)

Egypt

The Emergence of a “Coptic Question” in Egypt (April 28, 2006)

Controlled Reform in Egypt: Neither Reformist nor Controlled (December 15, 2005)

Egypt’s Election All About Image, Almost (September 6, 2005)

Popular Social Movements and the Future of Egyptian Politics (March 10, 2005)

Egypt Looks Ahead to Portentous Year (February 2, 2005)

Fahrenheit 9/11 Plays Cairo (September 16, 2004)

Protests Hint at New Chapter in Egyptian Politics (April 9, 2004)

Egypt's Summer of Discontent (September 18, 2003)

Egypt Struggles to Control Anti-War Protests (March 31, 2003)

Antinomies of the Saad Eddin Ibrahim Case (August 15, 2002)

Sparks of Activist Spirit in Egypt (April 13, 2002)

Explaining Egypt's Targeting of Gays (July 23, 2001)

Frosty Reception for US Religious Freedom Commission in Egypt (March 29, 2001)

Cracks in Egypt's Electoral Engineering The 2000 Vote (November 7, 2000)

Egypt Harasses Human Rights Activists (August 17, 2000)

Egypt: An Emerging "Market" of Double Repression ( November 18, 1999)

Mubarak in Washington: Assessing the US-Egyptian Bilateral Relationship (June 30, 1999)

Elections

The Election Yemen Was Supposed to Have (October 3, 2006)

Kuwait’s Annus Mirabilis (September 7, 2006)

Broken Ranks in the Palestinian National Movement (January 1, 2006)

Controlled Reform in Egypt: Neither Reformist nor Controlled (December 15, 2005)

Signpost in Somaliland’s Quest for Sovereignty (September 28, 2005)

Egypt’s Election All About Image, Almost (September 6, 2005)

Iran’s Presidential Runoff: The Long View (June 24, 2005)

Paradox and Possibility in Iran's Presidential Election (June 17, 2005)

Elections Pose Lebanon's Old Questions Anew (May 31, 2005)

Another "Historic Day" Looms in Iraq (January 20, 2005)

A Very Slippery "Landslide" for Mahmoud Abbas (January 20, 2005)

Afghanistan's Presidential Elections: Spreading Democracy or a Sham? (October 8, 2004)

Iran’s Forthcoming Parliamentary Elections Up for Grabs (November 23, 2003)

How Yemen's Ruling Party Secured an Electoral Landslide (May 16, 2003)

The Palestinian Elections That Never Were (January 24, 2003)

The Israeli Election Campaign Avoids the Issues (January 14, 2003)

The Upcoming Elections in Israel (December 4, 2002)

Elections in Pakistan: Turning Tragedy Into Farce (October 18, 2002)

Musical Chairs in Algeria (June 4, 2002)

The Band Played On: Continued Military Rule in Pakistan (May 9, 2002)

On the Eve of Iran's Presidential Elections (June 7, 2001)

Israel Elects Sharon: Contradictions of a Creeping Apartheid (February 12, 2001)

Iran's Conservatives Face the Electorate (February 1, 2001)

Beyond the Bibi Bill: Israel's Electoral System and the Intifada (December 19, 2000)

Cracks in Egypt's Electoral Engineering The 2000 Vote (November 7, 2000)

Rafsanjani's Gambit (February 15, 2000)

Assessing Israel's New Government (July 6, 1999)

Interpreting Israel's 1999 Election Campaign (April 16, 1999)

Europe and the Middle East

Killing Live 8, Noisily: The G-8, Liberal Dissent and the London Bombings (July 14, 2005)

An Ironic Result in Cyprus (May 12, 2004)

False Resolution Looms in EU-Israeli Settlement Trade Dispute (May 3, 2004)

Headscarves and the French Tricolor (January 30, 2004)

On Settlement Trade, Europe Doesn’t Stand Tall (April 8, 2003)

Sanctions and the "Moral Case" for War (March 4, 2003)

Letter from France (October 28, 2002)

From the Editors

Letting Lebanon Burn (July 21, 2006)

Horn of Africa

Signpost in Somaliland’s Quest for Sovereignty (September 28, 2005)

Eritrea-Ethiopia Verdict Due This Week (April 12, 2002)

War Clouds Over Somalia (March 22, 2002)

Ethiopia-Eritrea: Peace Process Creeps Forward (February 14, 2001)

Human Rights

Is Time on Iranian Women Protesters’ Side? (June 16, 2006)

Israel’s “Demographic Demon” in Court (June 1, 2006)

Torture and the Lawless “New Paradigm” (December 9, 2005)

Impunity on Both Sides of the Green Line (November 23, 2005)

Torture and the Lawless "New Paradigm" (December 9, 2005)

Iranian Women Take On the Constitution (July 21, 2005)

Women's Rights and the Meaning of Citizenship in Kuwait (February 10, 2005)

Morocco’s Justice and Reconciliation Commission (April 4, 2005)

Kuwait's Parliament Considers Women's Political Rights, Again (September 2, 2004)

The Guantánamo "Black Hole": The Law of War and the Sovereign Exception (January 11, 2004)

Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Tension in Iran (October 27, 2003)

Declining to Intervene: Israel's Supreme Court and the Occupied Territories (August 4, 2003)

Israel, the US and “Targeted Killings” (February 17, 2003)

Antinomies of the Saad Eddin Ibrahim Case (August 15, 2002)

The UN Arab Human Development Report: A Critique (July 26, 2002)

The Case of Azmi Bishara: Political Immunity and Freedom in Israel (January 9, 2002)

Closure: The Daily Reality of Israel's Occupation (August 27, 2001)

Explaining Egypt's Targeting of Gays (July 23, 2001)

Under the Guise of Security: House Demolitions in Gaza July 13, 2001)

Caught in the Middle: Women and Press Freedom in Iran (February 16, 2001)

Turkey's Operation Return to Life (December 29, 2000)

On Hold: International Protection for the Palestinians (November 28, 2000)

Egypt Harasses Human Rights Activists (August 17, 2000)

Destroying Houses and Lives (April 5, 2000)

Equal Rights for Arabs in Israel: A Goal Unrealizable -- An interview with Azmi Bishara, Knesset Member (December 14, 1999)

International Law/International Justice

Torture and the Lawless "New Paradigm" (December 9, 2005)

Darfur and the International Criminal Court (April 29, 2005)

World Court’s Ruling on Wall Speaks with Utmost Clarity (July 27, 2004)

The Guantánamo "Black Hole": The Law of War and the Sovereign Exception (January 11, 2004)

Universal Jurisdiction: Still Trying to Try Sharon (July 30, 2002)

Detonating Lebanon's War Files: The Belgian Court Case and the Beirut Car Bomb (January 31, 2002)

Trying to Try Sharon (October 11, 2001)

No-Fly Zones: Rhetoric and Real Intentions (February 20, 2001)

Politics, Not Policy: Behind US Calls for War Crimes Tribunals for Iraq (August 25, 2000)

Interventions

Reel Casbah (March 2006)

Paradise Now’s Understated Power (January 2006)

Urban Violence in France (November 2005)

Beating a Slow, Stubborn Retreat at Guantánamo Bay (May 2005)

Ariel Sharon and the Jordan Option (March 2005)

Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War (September 2004)

The Imperial Lament (July 2004)

Torture and the Future (May 2004)

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism (February 2004)

Behind the Battles Over US Middle East Studies (January 2004)

Never Too Soon to Say Goodbye to Hi (September 2003)

What Is Wrong with What Went Wrong? (July 2003)

The Peace Movement Plans for the Future (June 2003)

“Free People Will Set the Course of History”: Intellectuals, Democracy and American Empire (March 2003)

Iran

Is Time on Iranian Women Protesters’ Side? (June 16, 2006)

Under the Veil of Ideology: The Israeli-Iranian Strategic Rivalry (June 9, 2006)

Iran’s Nuclear File: The Uncertain Endgame (October 24, 2005)

Iranian Women Take On the Constitution (July 21, 2005)

Iran’s Presidential Runoff: The Long View (June 24, 2005)

Paradox and Possibility in Iran's Presidential Election (June 17, 2005)

Iran’s Nuclear Posture and the Scars of War (January 18, 2005)

Round 12 for Iran's Reformists (January 29, 2004)

Law of Unintended Consequences: US Sanctions and Iran’s Hardliners (January 28, 2004)

Iran's Forthcoming Parliamentary Elections Up for Grabs (November 23, 2003)

Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Tension in Iran (October 27, 2003)

“Our Letter to Khatami Was a Farewell”: An Interview with Saeed Razavi-Faqih (July 15, 2003)

Protest and Regime Resilience in Iran (December 11, 2002)

On the Eve of Iran's Presidential Elections (June 7, 2001)

Khatami and His "Reformist" Economic (Non-)Agenda (May 21, 2001)

Caught in the Middle: Women and Press Freedom in Iran (February 16, 2001)

Iran's Conservatives Face the Electorate (February 1, 2001)

Iran's Reform Dilemma: Within and Against the State (September 12, 2000)

An October 1999 Interview with Sai'id Hajjarian (March 13, 2000)

Rafsanjani's Gambit (February 15, 2000)

Deja Vu All over Again? Iranian Demonstrations Surprise the US (July 20, 1999)

Special Report from Iran (July 15, 1999)

Iraq

Kurdish Green Line, Turkish Red Line (March 11, 2005)

Another "Historic Day" Looms in Iraq (January 20, 2005)

The IMF and the Future of Iraq (December 7, 2004)

Scandals of Oil for Food (July 19, 2004)

Downsizing Saddam’s Odious Debt (March 2, 2004)

The Specter of Sectarian and Ethnic Unrest in Iraq (January 7, 2004)

Iraqi Food Security in Hands of Occupying Powers (December 2, 2004)

The Iraqi Governing Council's Sectarian Hue (August 20, 2003)

Dual-Use Material and the Weapons Search in Iraq (May 2, 2003)

Shiite Religious Parties Fill Vacuum in Southern Iraq (April 22, 2003)

Sanctions and the "Moral Case" for War (March 4, 2003)

A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War (January 28, 2003)

The US and the Kurds of Iraq: A Bitter History (August 9, 2002)

Sanctions Renewed on Iraq (May 14, 2002)

Iraq: Rolling Over Sanctions, Raising the Stakes (November 28, 2001)

How the Sanctions Hurt Iraq (August 2, 2001)

Smart Sanctions: Rebuilding Consensus or Maintaining Conflict? (June 28, 2001)

Assessing the Iraqi Opposition (March 23, 2001)

No-Fly Zones: Rhetoric and Real Intentions (February 20, 2001)

Almost Unnoticed: Interventions and Rivalries in Iraqi Kurdistan (January 24, 2001)

Running for Cover: The US, World Oil Markets and Iraq (September 28, 2000)

"They Dignified Our University" (May 24, 2000)

"The Situation in Iraq: Democracy Cannot Be Manufactured at Foggy Bottom or the Pentagon": An Interview with Representative Cynthia McKinney (October 21, 1999)

UNICEF Establishes Blame in Iraq (September 29, 1999)

Israel

Illusions of Unilateralism Dispelled in Israel (October 11, 2006)

Israel’s War Against Lebanon’s Shi‘a (July 25, 2006)

Converging Upon War (July 18, 2006)

Under the Veil of Ideology: The Israeli-Iranian Strategic Rivalry (June 9, 2006)

Israel’s “Demographic Demon” in Court (June 1, 2006)

Dual War: The Legacy of Ariel Sharon (March 22, 2006)

Musharraf’s Opening to Israel (March 2, 2006)

Less a “Big Bang” Than an Earthquake (January 18, 2006)

Impunity on Both Sides of the Green Line (November 23, 2005)

Orange Rampant (July 15, 2005)

Après Nous, Nous: Covering the Colonial Retreat (May 19, 2005)

Gaza's Wars of Perception (October 14, 2004)

The Militarist and Messianic Ideologies (July 8, 2004)

No Jordan Option (June 21, 2004)

Sharon's Sights on Strategic Objective (April 14, 2004)

Sharon's Unilateral Steps (December 31, 2003)

The Israeli Text and Context of the Geneva Accord (November 24, 2003)

The Jewish Israeli Left, US Empire and the End of the Two-State Solution: An Interview with Roni Ben-Efrat (August 21, 2003)

Declining to Intervene: Israel's Supreme Court and the Occupied Territories (August 4, 2003)

Bedouin in the Negev Face New “Transfer” (May 10, 2003)

The Israeli Election Campaign Avoids the Issues (January 14, 2003)

The Upcoming Elections in Israel (December 4, 2002)

Letters of Warning: The Or Commission in Israel (March 18, 2002)

In Israel, A New-Old Voice of Conscience Awakens (February 22, 2002)

The Case of Azmi Bishara: Political Immunity and Freedom in Israel (January 9, 2002)

Violence and its Rhetoric: Sharon and the US (March 28, 2001)

Sharon's National Unity Government: Shoring Up the "Iron Wall" (March 13, 2001)

Israel Elects Sharon: Contradictions of a Creeping Apartheid (February 12, 2001)

Beyond the Bibi Bill: Israel's Electoral System and the Intifada (December 19, 2000)

Israel's Palestinians and the Politics of Law and Order (September 23, 2000)

Israel's Cabinet Crisis and the Political Economy of Peace (June 19, 2000)

Equal Rights for Arabs in Israel: A Goal Unrealizable -- An interview with Azmi Bishara, Knesset Member (December 14, 1999)

Assessing Israel's New Government (July 6, 1999)

Interpreting Israel's 1999 Election Campaign (April 16, 1999)

Israel and Lebanon/Syria

Illusions of Unilateralism Dispelled in Israel (October 11, 2006)

Hizballah: A Primer (July 31, 2006)

Israel’s War Against Lebanon’s Shi‘a (July 25, 2006)

Converging Upon War (July 18, 2006)

Hizballah in the Firing Line (April 28, 2003)

Heightened Israeli-Lebanese Tensions Over Jordan's Headwaters (September 30, 2002)

Fears of a Second Front (April 23, 2002)

Universal Jurisdiction: Still Trying to Try Sharon (July 30, 2002)

Detonating Lebanon's War Files: The Belgian Court Case and the Beirut Car Bomb (January 31, 2002)

Trying to Try Sharon (October 11, 2001)

Lebanon One Year After the Israeli Withdrawal (May 29, 2001)

Walking into Israel's Trap? Syria and the Shebaa Farms (April 19, 2001)

Hizballah Outside and In (October 26, 2000)

Lebanon: An Occupation Ends (May 31, 2000)

Lebanon's Most Dangerous Summer (April 25, 2000)

News Not "Fit to Print": Hizballah and the Press (February 23, 2000)

Israeli-Syrian Talks: Back In a Deep Freeze (February 1, 2000)

Petition Charges Israel with War Crimes: The Case of the Qana Massacre Survivors (December 8, 1999)

Jordan

Reform Retreats Amid Jordan's Political Storms (June 10, 2005)

No Jordan Option (June 21, 2004)

The Newest Jordan: Free Trade, Peace and an Ace in the Hole (June 26, 2003)

Occupied Maan: Jordan's Closed Military Zone (December 3, 2002)

Don't Blink: Jordan's Democratic Opening and Closing (July 3, 2002)

Jordan's King Abdallah in Washington (May 8, 2002)

Kurds and Kurdistan

Return of the Turkish “State of Exception” (June 3, 2006)

The Ceasefire This Time (August 31, 2005)

Kurdish Green Line, Turkish Red Line (March 11, 2005)

Turkey's Tentative Opening to Kurdishness (June 14, 2004)

The US and the Kurds of Iraq: A Bitter History (August 9, 2002)

Almost Unnoticed: Interventions and Rivalries in Iraqi Kurdistan (January 24, 2001)

Kuwait

Kuwait’s Annus Mirabilis (September 7, 2006)

Three Emirs and a Tale of Two Transitions (February 10, 2006)

Women's Rights and the Meaning of Citizenship in Kuwait (February 10, 2005)

Kuwait's Parliament Considers Women's Political Rights, Again (September 2, 2004)

Lebanon and Syria

Hizballah: A Primer (July 31, 2006)

Israel’s War Against Lebanon’s Shi‘a (July 25, 2006)

How UN Pressure on Hizballah Impedes Lebanese Reform (May 23, 2006)

The Mehlis Report and Lebanon’s Trouble Next Door (November 18, 2005)

Elections Pose Lebanon's Old Questions Anew (May 31, 2005)

Commemorating Lebanon’s War Amid Continued Crisis (April 14, 2005)

Lebanon Catches Its Breath (March 23, 2005)

Hizballah and Syria’s “Lebanese Card” (September 14, 2004)

Hizballah in the Firing Line (April 28, 2003)

Heightened Israeli-Lebanese Tensions Over Jordan's Headwaters (September 30, 2002)

Thirteen-Year Itch: The Demise of Lebanon's Taif Agreement? (August 13, 2002)

Fears of a Second Front (April 23, 2002)

Detonating Lebanon's War Files: The Belgian Court Case and the Beirut Car Bomb (January 31, 2002)

Business As Usual in Syria? (September 7, 2001)

Lebanon One Year After the Israeli Withdrawal (May 29, 2001)

Walking into Israel's Trap? Syria and the Shebaa Farms (April 19, 2001)

Hizballah Outside and In (October 26, 2000)

Lebanon: An Occupation Ends (May 31, 2000)

Lebanon's Most Dangerous Summer (April 25, 2000)

Greater Insecurity for Refugees in Lebanon (March 1, 2000)

Morocco and the Maghrib

Morocco’s Justice and Reconciliation Commission (April 4, 2005)

Stubborn Stalemate in Western Sahara (June 26, 2004)

Behind the Baker Plan for Western Sahara (August 1, 2003)

Images and Realities of Mauritania's Attempted Coup (July 22, 2003)

Mediations

Thought Experiments (March 2005)

Jailhouse Rot (May 2004)

Occupied Palestinian Territories

Gaza in the Vise (July 11, 2006)

Fatah Ventures Into Uncharted Territory (April 19, 2006)

Broken Ranks in the Palestinian National Movement (January 1, 2006)

The New Hamas: Between Resistance and Participation (August 21, 2005)

Mahmoud Abbas’ Mission Improbable (June 1, 2005)

Après Nous, Nous: Covering the Colonial Retreat (May 19, 2005)

Weary, Guarded Hope in Gaza (February 8, 2005)

A Very Slippery "Landslide" for Mahmoud Abbas (January 20, 2005)

Gaza's Wars of Perception (October 14, 2004)

No Jordan Option (June 21, 2004)

In Rafah, History Hangs Heavy in the Air (June 4, 2004)

A New Kind of Killing (March 30, 2004)

Uncertainty and Disquiet Mark Intifada’s Third Anniversary (October 8, 2003)

Final Status in the Shape of a Wall (September 3, 2003)

The Road from Aqaba ( June 13, 2003)

A Road Map to the Oslo Cul-de-Sac (May 15, 2003)

Appointing Abu Mazen: A Drama with Two Enactments (May 1, 2003)

Israel's Clampdown Masks System of Control (February 14, 2003)

The Palestinian Elections That Never Were (January 24, 2003)

Building a Wall, Sealing the Occupation (September 29, 2002)

West Bank Curfews: Politics by Other Means (July 24, 2002)

Bleak Horizons After Operation Defensive Shield (April 30, 2002)

In Ramallah, Grueling Reoccupation Grinds On (April 5, 2002)

Sharon's Journey of Colors (March 18, 2002)

Toward Submission or War in Palestine? (January 26, 2002)

Closure: The Daily Reality of Israel's Occupation (August 27, 2001)

Under the Guise of Security: House Demolitions in Gaza July 13, 2001)

Intifada in the Aftermath (October 30, 2001)

Palestinians Prepare for the Worst (April 6, 2001)

On Hold: International Protection for the Palestinians (November 28, 2000)

The Iron Fist in the Peace Process (October 4, 2000)

Jerusalem and the Illusion of Israeli Sovereignty (August 4, 2000)

Destroying Houses and Lives (April 5, 2000)

Oil and Economics

Forecasting Mass Destruction, from Gulf to Gulf (September 29, 2005)

The IMF and the Future of Iraq (December 7, 2004)

Scandals of Oil for Food (July 19, 2004)

False Resolution Looms in EU-Israeli Settlement Trade Dispute (May 3, 2004)

Downsizing Saddam’s Odious Debt (March 2, 2004)

On Settlement Trade, Europe Doesn’t Stand Tall (April 8, 2003)

The UN Arab Human Development Report: A Critique (July 26, 2002)

Running for Cover: The US, World Oil Markets and Iraq (September 28, 2000)

The Collapse of WTO Negotiations: Implications for the Middle East (January 13, 2000)

Palestinians in Israel

Israel’s “Demographic Demon” in Court (June 1, 2006)

Impunity on Both Sides of the Green Line (November 23, 2005)

Bedouin in the Negev Face New “Transfer” (May 10, 2003)

Letters of Warning: The Or Commission in Israel (March 18, 2002)

The Case of Azmi Bishara: Political Immunity and Freedom in Israel (January 9, 2002)

Israel's Palestinians and the Politics of Law and Order (September 23, 2000)

Equal Rights for Arabs in Israel: A Goal Unrealizable -- An interview with Azmi Bishara, Knesset Member (December 14, 1999)

Peace Process

Illusions of Unilateralism Dispelled in Israel (October 11, 2006)

Mahmoud Abbas’ Mission Improbable (June 1, 2005)

Sharon's Sights on Strategic Objective (April 14, 2004)

Sharon's Unilateral Steps (December 31, 2003)

The Israeli Text and Context of the Geneva Accord (November 24, 2003)

The Road from Aqaba ( June 13, 2003)

A Road Map to the Oslo Cul-de-Sac (May 15, 2003)

The Mitchell Report: Oslo's Last Gasp? (June 1, 2001)

Negotiating Over the Clinton Plan (January 6, 2001)

The Peres-Arafat Agreement: Can It Work? (November 3, 2000)

Shows of Solidarity Forever: The October 21-22 Arab Summit (October 20, 2000)

After the Sharm al-Sheikh Summit: An Armed and Temporary Truce (October 17, 2000)

Camp David II (July 26, 2000)

The Final Approach to Final Status (July 7, 2000)

The Oslo Process-Back on Track? (October 7, 1999)

The Demise of the Oslo Process (March 26, 1999)

Refugees

Solutions Not Imminent for Afghan Displaced and Refugees (December 4, 2001)

Aid Drops in Afghanistan (October 10, 2001)

Afghanistan's Refugee Crisis (September 24, 2001)

Greater Insecurity for Refugees in Lebanon (March 1, 2000)

Sanctions

Scandals of Oil for Food (July 19, 2004)

Dual-Use Material and the Weapons Search in Iraq (May 2, 2003)

Sanctions and the "Moral Case" for War (March 4, 2003)

Sanctions Renewed on Iraq (May 14, 2002)

Iraq: Rolling Over Sanctions, Raising the Stakes (November 28, 2001)

How the Sanctions Hurt Iraq (August 2, 2001)

Smart Sanctions: Rebuilding Consensus or Maintaining Conflict? (June 28, 2001)

"They Dignified Our University" (May 24, 2000)

"The Situation in Iraq: Democracy Cannot Be Manufactured at Foggy Bottom or the Pentagon": An Interview with Representative Cynthia McKinney (October 21, 1999)

UNICEF Establishes Blame in Iraq (September 29, 1999)

Saudi Arabia

Violence and the Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia (November 13, 2003)

Understanding Political Dissent in Saudi Arabia (October 24, 2001)

Sudan

Black Monday: The Political and Economic Dimensions of Sudan's Urban Riots (August 9, 2005)

Darfur and the International Criminal Court (April 29, 2005)

The Politics of Slaughter in Sudan (October 18, 2004)

Darfur's Manmade Disaster (July 22, 2004)

Peace in Sudan Doubtful (July 19, 2002)

Sudan's Opposition and the US (June 11, 2001)

Turkey

Return of the Turkish “State of Exception” (June 3, 2006)

The Ceasefire This Time (August 31, 2005)

Kurdish Green Line, Turkish Red Line (March 11, 2005)

Turkey's Tentative Opening to Kurdishness (June 14, 2004)

Turkey’s Dangerous Game (March 27, 2003)

Litmus Test: Turkey’s Neo-Islamists Weigh War and Peace (January 30, 2003)

Washington Pushes Turkey Toward ‘The Red Line’ (August 6, 2002)

Turkey's Ecevit: Hopes and Worries Arrive in Washington (January 15, 2002)

Desperately but Deliberately, Turkey Joins Bush’s War (November 8, 2001)

Almost Unnoticed: Interventions and Rivalries in Iraqi Kurdistan (January 24, 2001)

Turkey's Operation Return to Life (December 29, 2000)

United Nations

How UN Pressure on Hizballah Impedes Lebanese Reform (May 23, 2006)

Iran’s Nuclear File: The Uncertain Endgame (October 24, 2005)

Hizballah and Syria’s “Lebanese Card” (September 14, 2004)

Scandals of Oil for Food (July 19, 2004)

Stubborn Stalemate in Western Sahara (June 26, 2004)

Strings and the Global Gulliver (October 20, 2003)

Behind the Baker Plan for Western Sahara (August 1, 2003)

Dual-Use Material and the Weapons Search in Iraq (May 2, 2003)

Irrelevance Lost (March 20, 2003)

Sanctions and the "Moral Case" for War (March 4, 2003)

A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War (January 28, 2003)

The UN Arab Human Development Report: A Critique (July 26, 2002)

Sanctions Renewed on Iraq (May 14, 2002)

Iraq: Rolling Over Sanctions, Raising the Stakes (November 28, 2001)

How the Sanctions Hurt Iraq (August 2, 2001)

Smart Sanctions: Rebuilding Consensus or Maintaining Conflict? (June 28, 2001)

US Policy

Torture and the Lawless "New Paradigm" (December 9, 2005)

Iran’s Nuclear File: The Uncertain Endgame (October 24, 2005)

Mahmoud Abbas’ Mission Improbable (June 1, 2005)

Hard Time in the Heartland (September 30, 2003)

Dual-Use Material and the Weapons Search in Iraq (May 2, 2003)

Pro-Israel Hawks and the Second Gulf War (April 6, 2003)

Israel, the US and “Targeted Killings” (February 17, 2003)

Sanctions and the "Moral Case" for War (March 4, 2003)

A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War (January 28, 2003)

The US and the Kurds of Iraq: A Bitter History (August 9, 2002)

The "Do More" Chorus in Washington (April 15, 2002)

Sudan's Opposition and the US (June 11, 2001)

Frosty Reception for US Religious Freedom Commission in Egypt (March 29, 2001)

Violence and its Rhetoric: Sharon and the US (March 28, 2001)

No-Fly Zones: Rhetoric and Real Intentions (February 20, 2001)

Running for Cover: The US, World Oil Markets and Iraq (September 28, 2000)

Politics, Not Policy: Behind US Calls for War Crimes Tribunals for Iraq (August 25, 2000)

"They Dignified Our University" (May 24, 2000)

"The Situation in Iraq: Democracy Cannot Be Manufactured at Foggy Bottom or the Pentagon": An Interview with Representative Cynthia McKinney (October 21, 1999)

Deja Vu All over Again? Iranian Demonstrations Surprise the US (July 20, 1999)

Uzbekistan

Mystery Surrounds Tashkent Explosions (April 15, 2004)

Western Sahara

Stubborn Stalemate in Western Sahara (June 26, 2004)

Behind the Baker Plan for Western Sahara (August 1, 2003)

Women

Is Time on Iranian Women Protesters’ Side? (June 16, 2006)

Iranian Women Take On the Constitution (July 21, 2005)

Women's Rights and the Meaning of Citizenship in Kuwait (February 10, 2005)

Kuwait's Parliament Considers Women's Political Rights, Again (September 2, 2004)

Headscarves and the French Tricolor (January 30, 2004)

Caught in the Middle: Women and Press Freedom in Iran (February 16, 2001)

Afghan Girls' Struggle for Schooling (July 6, 2000)

Yemen

The Election Yemen Was Supposed to Have (October 3, 2006)

Foreboding About the Future in Yemen (April 3, 2006)

Salih’s Road to Reelection (January 13, 2006)

Cracks in the Yemeni System (July 28, 2005)

How Yemen's Ruling Party Secured an Electoral Landslide (May 16, 2003)

The Death and Life of Jarallah Omar (December 31, 2002)

Investigating the Cole Bombing (September 6, 2001)

Yemen and the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (October 18, 2000)

—Compiled by Jawad Muaddi and Elizabeth Nickle

 

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