Region's crises an opportunity for authentic Arab spring - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Clovis Maksoud

Clovis Maksoud

Jun 25, 2014

The setting sun is seen behind a grove of trees at Cairo Stadium, January 2, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX1703F — The setting sun is seen behind a grove of trees at Cairo Stadium, Jan. 2, 2014. — REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (R) speaks with Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami (L) at the Iraq-Kurdistan Oil and Gas Conference at Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, December 2, 2013. Turkey said on Monday it stood by a bilateral oil deal with Iraq's Kurdistan region that bypassed central government but wanted to win Baghdad's support by drawing it into the arrangement. Reuters reported that Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan signed a multi-billion-dollar energy pack

Baghdad, Erbil continue their struggle for authority

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Presidential candidate and Egypt's former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks during a television interview broadcast on CBC and ONTV, in Cairo, May 6, 2014. Sisi, who is expected to win a presidential election this month, said in a television interview broadcast on Tuesday that costly energy subsidies could not be lifted quickly. REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) EGYPT OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN EGYPT - RTR3OCB5

Sisi offers opportunity for renewed Egyptian centrality

Clovis Maksoud

Countries need to urgently slash fossil fuel emissions to meet warming targets

Global crises must not delay action on climate, UN talks told

Agence France-Presse

Former Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is seen in Jerusalem's magistrate court at the continuation of his trial, April 25, 2013. Lieberman was indicted on charges relating to the promotion of an Israeli diplomat who had illegally given him information about a police investigation against him. The allegations led Lieberman, a key ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to resign from cabinet last December. REUTERS/Uriel Sinai/Pool (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW) - RTXYZEJ

Netanyahu's coalition stable — with or without Liberman

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics