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s for exporting Iran's essentially Shiite revolution have run into the complications of the Arab Spring. Emboldened by the fall of the pro-American Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Tehran has subsequently watched with disquiet the isolation of Syria's Bashar al-Assad and the potential loss of llamas, not to mention t

erprises remain untouched. This economic empire situates Egypt in neither a socialist economy nor a neo-liberal one: it is an "ambivalent market." Mubarak's regime purposely created ambiguity in the country's economy. On the one hand, it attempted to abide by the 1992 agreement with its creditors to l

4:20 PM Subject: March 12 update 12 March, 2012 Article 1. Bloomberg Iran-Israel History Suggests a Different Future Pankaj Mishra Article 2. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The Generals' Secret: Egypt's Ambivalent Market Zeinab Abul-Magd Article 3. Los Angeles Times Turkey struggles in the role of Mideast power du

ion in Iraq provided that country on a silver platter to Iran. The 25 January Revolution in Egypt came to broaden the cracks when the US abandoned Hosni Mubarak, which the Saudi EFTA_R1_02203849 EFTA02720467 Kingdom considered as letting down an ally — something that might be repeated with the kingdom it

n order to sustain high social spending and support the Egyptian EFTA_R1_02203857 EFTA02720475 currency amid the political turmoil that followed Mubarak's removal. In the first 18 months of the transition, during which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) held control, Egypt received only

720449 The next battle: Presidency Mustafa Akyol Article 7. The Economist Egypt's probable president: Pretending to be a civilian Article 8. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace What Will a Sisi Presidency Bring for Egypt? Foreign Policy Shaped by Donors Michele Dunne Article I. NYT U.S. to Reassess Status of Talks on

itself are livid at the decision, an eleventh-hour reversal of a longstanding undertaking to stay out of the race to elect a successor to President Hosni Mubarak. Curiously enough, though, the New York Times reports that U.S. official are "untroubled and even optimistic about the Brotherhood's reversal of it

not to seek the presidency". In a vignette of just how much the political landscape has changed since the days when the U.S. pinned its hopes on a Mubarak regime that imprisoned the likes of Shater, the Times reports that the Brotherhood's candidate is in regular contact with U.S. Ambassador Anne Pate

Nathan J. Brown is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Article 7. TIME Why the U.S. May Be Secretly Cheering a Muslim Brotherhood Run For Egypt's Presidency Tony Karon April 4, 2012 -- Liberals an

he big question is whether the inevitable change will come from inside or outside the current system. Putin could be another Gorbachev — or another Mubarak. Some people believe that he will slowly allow liberalization. But his conduct of the election campaign — founded on excluding opponents and bad- m

ncendiary announcement that a nuclear site buried deep underground was about to start enriching uranium. Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says that senior White House staff asked during that time period whether Iranian regime elements might be trying to goad Israel into launching air