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Cairo-based reporter for Foreign Policy and Time magazines, and author of Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation; former Jerusalem correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
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Ashraf Khalil
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Growing Turmoil in Egypt Violence has erupted again in Egypt, where supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi are demonstrating against the government that ousted him in July. The government has designated the Muslim Brotherhood, which backed Egypt's first democratically elected leader, a terrorist organization and is responding to dissent, which comes ahead of an upcoming constitutional referendum, with increasing force and arrests. Will this further radicalize Islamists in Egypt? Will the violence spill over into the rest of the region? What role should the United States play in a Middle East marked by the rise of al Qaeda-linked insurgencies?
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Are Revolutions Transforming the Middle East? Since dictators were deposed by "people power" in Tunisia and Egypt, there's been talk of an "Arab Spring" that would finally bring an end to authoritarianism in the Middle East and even a flowering of democracy. But in Egypt today, street protests, strikes and sit-ins were criminalized by Hosni Mubarak's military successors. We hear more on the possible consequences of revolution there and elsewhere.
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Are Revolutions Transforming the Middle East? Since the so-called "Arab Spring" began in Tunisia, there's been violence in that country. Today, Egypt's new military leaders formally criminalized protests. In Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and Libya, there's no telling what kinds of changes domestic upheaval will bring. Iran and Saudi Arabia may not see changes at all. What can be learned from Georgia, Ukraine and other countries that threw off the yoke of Communism? When is the old order vulnerable to a new generation of freedom-loving democrats? When are high expectations vulnerable to traditional realities?
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Gaza Offensive Continues While Officials Reportedly Consider Truce After four days of air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials are reportedly considering a temporary truce to give Hamas militants an opening to stop firing rockets on Israel. But earlier today Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset that Israel would wage "an all-out war against Hamas and its kind." Ashraf Khalil is Jerusalem correspondent for the Los Angeles Times .
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Gaza Offensive Continues While Officials Reportedly Consider Truce After four days of air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials are reportedly considering a temporary truce to give Hamas militants an opening to stop firing rockets on Israel. But earlier today Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset that Israel would wage "an all-out war against Hamas and its kind." Ashraf Khalil is Jerusalem correspondent for the Los Angeles Times .
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