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Roger Owen's Al-Hayat Columns

CMES Professor Roger Owen writes regular a column for the Arabic-language Al-Hayat newspaper. A selection of his columns is available here in English.

News from Iraq Becomes More, Deliberately, Personal and More Difficult to Interpret
September 2014

Iraq Roughly Divided Into Three Again?
June 2014

The Muslim Brothers and Ennahda: Parties or Movements or Can They Be Both?
May 2014

The Vocabulary of Revolution
February 2014

Blessed Are the Peacemakers in the Arab World's Deeply Divided Societies
February 2014

Year One of the Arab Revolution: Some Pointers to the Future 
January 2012

Libya: Getting the Measure of the Qaddafi Regime [PDF]
August 2011

Post-Revolutionary Trials for Corruption in Egypt and Elsewhere in the Arab World: Political, Legal, or Both?
July 2011

National Interest Versus Plural Interests in a Successful Democracy
February 2011

Freedom Means Dignity in the Battle for Midan Tahrir
February 2011

The Arab World Re-enters History?
January 2011

Thirty Years after Turkey's Last Military Coup
September 2010

Seven Years of Occupation in Iraq and What For?
August 2010

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