Marina Ottaway

Wilson Center

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Senior scholar at the Wilson Center; former senior associate in the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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In Egypt's recent elections, the Muslim Brotherhood won 37 percent of the vote and the ultra-conservative Salafists got 24 percent.

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For the first time in twenty eight years, the United States sat down to official talks with Iran. The subject was the war in Iraq.

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