#  Roger Owen's Al-Hayat Columns 

 



CMES Professor Roger Owen writes regular a column for the Arabic-language [*Al-Hayat* newspaper](http://international.daralhayat.com/). A selection of his columns is available here in English.

[**News from Iraq Becomes More, Deliberately, Personal and More Difficult to Interpret**](/news/news-iraq-becomes-more-deliberately-personal-and-more-difficult-interpret)  
September 2014

**[Iraq Roughly Divided Into Three Again?](/news/iraqs-future-roughly-divided-three-again)**  
June 2014

**[The Muslim Brothers and Ennahda: Parties or Movements or Can They Be Both?](/news/muslim-brothers-and-ennahda-parties-or-movements-or-can-they-be-both)**  
May 2014

**[The Vocabulary of Revolution](/news/vocabulary-revolution)**  
February 2014

**[Blessed Are the Peacemakers in the Arab World's Deeply Divided Societies](/news/blessed-are-peacemakers-arab-worlds-deeply-divided-societies)**  
February 2014

**[Year One of the Arab Revolution: Some Pointers to the Future](/news/year-one-arab-revolution-some-pointers-future)** January 2012

**[Libya: Getting the Measure of the Qaddafi Regime](/file_url/655)** \[PDF\]  
August 2011

**[Post-Revolutionary Trials for Corruption in Egypt and Elsewhere in the Arab World: Political, Legal, or Both?](/news/post-revolutionary-trials-corruption-egypt-and-elsewhere-arab-world-political-legal-or)**  
July 2011

**[National Interest Versus Plural Interests in a Successful Democracy](/news/national-interest-versus-plural-interests-successful-democracy)**  
February 2011

**[Freedom Means Dignity in the Battle for Midan Tahrir](/news/freedom-means-dignity-battle-midan-tahrir)**  
February 2011

**[The Arab World Re-enters History?](/news/arab-world-re-enters-history)**  
January 2011

**[Thirty Years after Turkey's Last Military Coup](/news/thirty-years-after-turkeys-last-military-coup)**  
September 2010

**[Seven Years of Occupation in Iraq and What For?](/news/seven-years-occupation-iraq-and-what)**  
August 2010