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Project Syndicate: Netanyahu Means war > read

The New York Times: The Islamic State Has Not Been Defeated > read

Jadaliyya:  Making the Arab World – Interview > read

The Daily Beast:  Excerpt from Making the Arab World: The Secret Islamist Society That Nurtured Jihadist Terrorism > read

Project Syndicate: Trump, Syria, and the Threat of Region-Wide War > read

Project Syndicate: The Struggle for Egypt’s Future > read

Project Syndicate: Trump’s Pro-ISIS Foreign Policy > read 

Project Syndicate: The Strategic Logic of the Islamic State > read

The Guardian: Erdoğan may be divisive, but a coup in Turkey would have been devastating > read

The Guardian: A diplomatic breakthrough is a long way off in Syria’s deadly war > read

Los Angeles Times: The three manifestos that paved the way for Islamic State > read

Foreign Policy Journal: The World According to ISIS > read

BBC: Syria war: Tide turns Assad’s way amid ceasefire push > read

BBC: The rise of IS – and how to beat it > read

Current History: ISIS and the Third Wave of Jihadism > read

CNN: Peter Kassig’s murder by ISIS: A sign of weakness from a terror group on the run > read

BBC: Islamic State: Can its savagery be explained? > read

USA Today: Israeli excesses provoke Hamas > read

BBC: Iraq’s central government suffers mortal blow > read

Aljazeera: Syria: The odds are against the opposition > read

CNN: Opinion: Why Iraq elections can’t fix chaos left behind by U.S. > read

Aljazeera: Syria: Elections in the time of carnage > read

The Guardian: Al-Maliki’s divisive leadership has opened a window for al-Qaida in Iraq > read

The Guardian: Saudi Arabia and Iran must end their proxy war in Syria > read

H-Diplo Roundtable Review: Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment > read

The Guardian: Only Assad can prove the ‘toxic gas’ claims are false > read

Foreign Policy, The Middle East Channel: Premature Obituaries for Political Islam > read

The Guardian: Egypt coup: the military has not just ousted Morsi. It has ousted democracy > read

CNN: Why drone strikes are real enemy in ‘war on terror’ > read

CNN: Syrian hostilities bring Middle East catastrophe closer > read

BBC: Syria’s set for drawn-out conflict > read

Gerges discussing Assad’s state of mind on CNN’s Amanpour > watch

Review of Obama and the Middle East in LSE’s Review of Books > read

The Huffington Post reviews Obama and the Middle East > read

The Guardian: Egypt’s Sinai problem won’t be solved with airstrikes > read

The Economist reviews Obama and the Middle East > read

The Guardian: The Syrian regime is not a house of glass > read

CNN: Syria’s attack on Turkish plane could ignite conflict > read

Reuters: A Muslim Brother leads Egypt, have no fear > read

Times Higher Education:  Obama and the Middle East selected asBook of the Week > read

New Statesman: why the crisis in Syria will be long and bloody > read

Discussing what comes next in Syria with Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s Global Public Square > watch

Christian Science Monitor:  Will Al Qaeda cement its foothold in Syria? >read

Newsweek: How the Arab Spring Beat Al Qaeda  >read 

openDemocracy:  The new capitalists: Islamists’ political economy >read