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Arabian Idol: Reality TV tames nationalism A different sort of conflict broke out this summer in the Middle East -- one involving reality TV. While it offers more evidence that the region is in the grip of a liberationist pop culture frenzy, it also demonstrates that even the region's pop fandom can fall prey to divisiveness.   |
Reason
June 2003
Charles Paul Freund |
Look Who's Rocking the Casbah The revolutionary implications of Arab music videos |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
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The Sands Are Shifting Under Egypt's Mubarak Rising tensions in Egypt arrive at a time when the Bush Administration's Middle East activism is moving into a tricky phase. |
BusinessWeek
October 24, 2005
Stanley Reed |
Syria's Regime Feels More And More Heat The chain reaction set off by the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Feb. 14 is gaining force. |
Smithsonian
July 2005
Stephen Glain |
Syria at a Crossroads Following a humbling retreat from Lebanon and increasingly at odds with the U.S., the proud Arab nation finds itself at a critical juncture. |
Reason
December 2003
Michael Young |
Orient Obsess Douglas Little takes a lackluster look at Americans abroad in American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945. |
Salon.com
June 13, 2000
Flore de Preneuf |
Is Syria's next president a geek? He loves technology. He wants to bring the Internet to Damascus. But can the Israelis learn to love him? |
Salon.com
September 21, 2001
Paul Wachter |
The view from Beirut An American in Lebanon warns that despite Bush's efforts, Arabs will likely view an attack on terrorism as a war on Islam... |
Inc.
July 2006
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Mideast Boom This year, U.S. exports to the Middle East are expected to increase 56 percent, to $40 billion. Below, the top 15 importers. |
Outside
February 2006
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The Sweetest Villains Syria is an enthusiastic state sponsor of terrorism and a fiendish fan of torture and oppression. But have you tried the stuffed grape leaves? |
Parameters
Autumn 2007
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Stabilizing Lebanon: Peacekeeping or Nation-Building While outside actors have played a major role, the weakness of the Lebanese government lies at the foundation of conflicts within the region. |
Reason
June 2006 |
Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq... |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Reed & Sandler |
Syria's Assad: Man On A Tightrope No matter what the small pro-regime crowds in the Syrian capital say, being forced to pull Syrian troops out of Lebanon comes as a humiliation for Bashar al-Assad. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Stanley Reed |
Can Assad Halt Syria's Diplomatic Slide? Syria's young president, Bashar Al-Assad, has been sailing along oblivious to the dangers his government has been courting. Now he's waking up fast. |
Reason
February 2007
Guy Taylor |
After the Damascus Spring Syria, an authoritarian state whose government, which has long maintained ownership and control over the media, claims now to be intent on spreading information technology to the masses. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Kimberly Krieger |
Lebanon's Limestone: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea Sandwiched between Israel and Syria, Lebanon is a green and white jewel on the Mediterranean Sea. The green comes from Lebanon's humid and semi-tropical climate and the white is from the limestone covering most of the country. |
