Readers of this blog know that, along with Yemen, Lebanon is a particular obsession here, for reasons both strategic and emotional. I’ll still do an occasional piece here and there, mostly about Lebanon's role in the region, but highly suggest checking out Daniel Graeber's new FPA blog on Lebanon. Highly readable and informed, it has quickly become a must-read for anyone who cares about the fate of that troubled, volatile, impossible country.
The Washington Post has a pair of editorials on the Middle East today. Oneis by Amr Hamzawy and Mohammed Herzallah about democracy in Egypt, and how it is honored more in breach than in practice.
The other is by David Ignatius about moderates in the Arab world being squeezed out. Not exactly revolutionary, but still interesting.
Finally, the author has a piece on the three rebellions facing Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen in the Jamestown Review's Terrorism Monitor. It has been called “breathtakingly perfect” by the author's mother.
