Carnegie Middle East Center
Marc Lynch was a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world.
Marc Lynch is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Marc Lynch was a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world. He is also a professor of political science at the George Washington University, where he recently completed a six-year term as director of the Institute for Middle East Studies. He is the director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, an international network of scholars, and a contributing editor of the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. He received a B.A. from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, and previously taught at Williams College. His newest book, The New Arab Wars, was published by Public Affairs in 2016; other recent books include The Arab Uprising (Public Affairs, 2012) and The Arab Uprisings Explained (Columbia University Press, 2014). In 2016, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow to conduct research on the legacies of post-Arab uprising violence.
The Arab uprisings of 2019 are stages in a political struggle that is likely to continue.
Authoritarian Arab regimes are reshaping the message from recent protests in Algeria and Sudan to their own advantage.
Why Arab satellite channels have not watched recent protests in the same way that they did in 2011.
There are reasons to believe that human rights norms will be revived in the Middle East before long.
As the Khashoggi affair will likely show, accountability is never a problem for Arab leaders.
Post-conflict reconstruction is inherently political, involving a struggle for power and influence.
Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission is facing a host of problems, including internal disputes and public apathy.
Comparing the demonstrations in Iran with the Arab uprisings may mean missing an important point.
The fate of Ali Abdullah Saleh underlines the limits of proxy wars in the Middle East, and the suffering they generate.
The White House has recently hosted two very different views about how to deal with Islamism.
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