Arab World
The president’s national security team du jour has cooked up a new plan much like the old one to secure Syria by staying while going.
Jennifer Grout, a 23-year-old singer from Boston, speaks no Arabic—and yet she’s become a phenomenon across the Middle East for her flawless renditions of classic songs on the spinoff series Arabs Got Talent.
Calling U.S. Foreign Service Officers “Arabists” working for their “clients” in the Arab League goes too far and insults diplomats’ professionalism and service, says Ali Gharib.
The Daily Beast offers a Cheat Sheet of opinion on the no-fly zone and the U.N.-backed intervention.
Whether the unrest from Tunisia to Egypt will result in democracy is unclear, but the Arab media is celebrating nonetheless—and taking away a few key lessons about entrenched regimes across the region.