Alex Edwards is a desk editor at <em>The Majalla</em> and <em>Asharq Al-Awsat</em>'s English editions. He trained as a journalist before receiving his PhD from the London School of Economics, where he researched American foreign policy in the Gulf.
[caption id="attachment_55238644" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iraqi's protest against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Kirkuk, February 2013. Source: MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images).[/caption]
[inset_left]Iraq: From War to a New Authoritarianism
Toby Dodge
London, Routledge/IISS, 2012
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[caption id="attachment_55248181" align="alignnone" width="620"] A United States Marine shakes hands with the leader of the Egyptian military band who is dressed in a Pharaoh contume October 23, 2001 during Bright Star exercises on Egypt's north coast. (Norbert Schiller/Getty Images)[/caption]Ever s...
[caption id="attachment_55245886" align="alignnone" width="619"] US President Barack Obama and US Vice President Joe Biden greet troops during a ceremony to mark the return of the US Forces-Iraq Colors and the end of the Iraq war on December 20, 2011 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Kristoffer Trip...
[caption id="attachment_55245021" align="alignnone" width="620"] A US Navy officer walks in front of a 5754 gun on the deck of the USS Milius DDG69, a multi-mission capable guided missile destroyer ship. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/GettyImages)[/caption]With the stage seemingly now set for a US military strike ...
[caption id="attachment_55243830" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian soldiers take part in celebrations marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution at Tehran’s Azadi Square (Freedom Square) on February 11, 2012. ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]
[inset_left]Revolutionary Iran: A ...
[caption id="attachment_55243031" align="aligncenter" width="620"] US President Barack Obama listens during a bilateral meeting with French President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of the G8 summit in the Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on June 18, 2013 (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Gett...
[caption id="attachment_55242147" align="alignnone" width="620"] Illustration showing leaders of the Continental Congress, from left to right, John Adams, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, from a drawing by Augustus Tholey, 1894. Interim Archives/Getty Images[/caption]
The Ame...
[caption id="attachment_55241302" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (L) wave during their press conference after Mashaei registered his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election at the interior ministry in Tehran on May 11, ...
[caption id="attachment_55241173" align="aligncenter" width="620"] US-made F-15 jet fighters of the Saudi Royal Air Force perform on January 1, 2013, in Riyadh. (AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE)[/caption]While everything in the Middle East seems to be in flux—Syria is mired in civil war and other states t...
[caption id="attachment_55238750" align="aligncenter" width="620"] World powers and Iran's representatives sit at a table during talks on Iran's nuclear programme in the Kazakh city of Almaty on February 26, 2013. Source: STANISLAV FILIPPOV/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]
This week, the attention of gove...