s earliest days, and the reports that extremists are surfacing in Syria only play into the official narrative, said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. "This drip, drip, drip of extremists across the border . . . there are signs the regime is aiding and abetting it," Shaikh said. "And it

on. "A lot of these groups are now having to do this difficult dance and straddle these two constituencies," Shadi Hamid, research director at the Brookings Doha Center, said of Hamas and other Islamist organizations in the region. "That leads to considerable policy incoherence." Where that is heading is unclear, a

doing what he wants to do. F. Gregory Gause III is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings Doha Center. NYT Follow the Money Thomas L. Friedman April 1, 2014 -- If you follow the debates about Ukraine, you can see three trends: those who use the c

are some members of the SCAF who helped Mr. Morsy to do this, and they will now be beholden to him and owe their positions to his administration," Brookings Doha Center analyst EFTA_R1_00298529 EFTA01884048 Shadi Hamid told the Economist. "What we're going to see is a temporary accommodation in the short-term. B