Islamist Musical Chairs

Hussein Agha And Robert Malley survey the Islamists' transition to power in the Arab world: Not unlike the rulers they helped depose, Islamists placate the West. Not unlike those they replaced, who used the Islamists as scarecrows to keep the West by the

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