Juan Cole is Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan. He maintains a blog on US foreign policy and progressive politics, Informed Comment. His new book, The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East(Simon and Schuster, 2014), will officially be published on July 1.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab millennials will be back
Like much of the rest of the Arab Spring, the urge of the millennial generation across North Africa and the Middle...
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Published in: openSecurityIraq’s Sunni civil war
Iraq’s Sunnis have become increasingly alienated from its Shia-dominated government. Al-Qaeda has been able to...