Research and Commentary

Syria, the U.S., and Arming the Rebels: Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons and Obama’s Red Line

June 14, 2013, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Michael Doran, Daniel L. Byman, Shadi Hamid and Bruce Riedel

The Folly of Waiting for a More Perfect Syrian Opposition

May 28, 2013, Shadi Hamid

Syria, Chemical Weapons, And The Intervention Question

April 29, 2013, Shadi Hamid

Obama's Strategy in the Middle East: The Blurry Red Line

April 26, 2013, Shadi Hamid

Syria Is Not Iraq

February 4, 2013, Shadi Hamid

How Should President Obama Change U.S. Policy in the Middle East?

January 2013, Shadi Hamid

The President's Fantasy Cabinet

January 21, 2013, Shadi Hamid

Camp David Peace Treaty Collapse

January 17, 2013, Tamara Cofman Wittes and Shadi Hamid

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Old Friends, New Neighborhood: The United States, the GCC, and their Responses to the Arab Spring

December 2012, Shadi Hamid

Middle East Lost

November 5, 2012, Shadi Hamid

The Candidates Debate Foreign Policy – The Takeaways

October 23, 2012, Shadi Hamid, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Ted Piccone, and Marvin Kalb

Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Agenda

October 9, 2012, Suzanne Maloney, Shadi Hamid, Justin Vaïsse, Bruce Riedel, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Clara M. O'Donnell

Anti-American Sentiment in Egypt and the New Post-Arab Spring Reality

September 25, 2012, Shadi Hamid

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What Do The Protests Say About Egypt's New Leader?

September 14, 2012, Shadi Hamid

Don't Give Up on the Arab Spring: Why America Did the Right Thing in Libya

September 12, 2012, Shadi Hamid

The Rise of Egypt's "Undemocratic Liberals"

July 30, 2012, Shadi Hamid

Around the Halls: Mohamed Morsi’s Victory and the Future of Egypt’s Transition

June 26, 2012, Martin S. Indyk, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Khaled Elgindy and Shadi Hamid

A U.S.-Egyptian Relationship for a Democratic Era

April 2012, Shadi Hamid

@ Brookings Podcast: The Arab Spring and U.S. Policy in the Middle East

March 30, 2012, Shadi Hamid

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After the Arab Awakening

March 23, 2012, Shadi Hamid

How Stable Is Jordan? King Abdullah’s Half-hearted Reforms and the Challenge of the Arab Spring

November 2011, Courtney Freer and Shadi Hamid

What Obama and American Liberals Don’t Understand About the Arab Spring

October 1, 2011, Shadi Hamid

U.S. Foreign Policy after Libya

September 14, 2011, Shadi Hamid

Reviving Bush's Best Unfulfilled Idea: Democracy Promotion

September 13, 2011, Shadi Hamid

The First True Arab Revolution

August 22, 2011, Shadi Hamid