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No, Turkey is not the Next Iran
Erdoğan’s New Turkey, as illiberal as it is, can help build peace in the Middle East Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. Follow him on X at: @AkyolinEnglish. On October 9, 2023, just two days after…
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It’s Not Only Up to the United States
The Gaza peace plan will work only if major regional players do their part. Ezzedine Fishere is an Egyptian novelist and journalist and a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. The Trump plan has brought a ceasefire to Gaza, with a prisoner and hostage swap. That is no small feat. It took an extraordinary American intervention…
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These Two Countries Made Peace. Don’t Let it Fall Apart
Ezzedine Fishere is an Egyptian novelist and journalist and a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. The Israeli-Egyptian peace is often taken for granted. It shouldn’t be. What began in the mid-1970s as a set of modest disengagement agreements has, over half a century, grown into one of the most durable security relationships in the Middle…