Mohamad Bazzi

Mohamad Bazzi, who was Newsday's Middle East bureau chief for four years, is currently the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Currently

  • Bush's Islamist Enemies List

    May 20, 2008

    By conflating Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah, the President displays his ignorance--and could be laying the groundwork for attacks by Israel on Hamas and Hezbollah.

2007

  • Muqtada al-Sadr's Power Grab

    December 21, 2007

    The bad boy of Iraqi politics is going back to school. al-Sadr's plan to become an ayatollah has enormous implications for Iraqis and the United States.

  • Syria's Dangerous Gambits

    November 12, 2007

    Ostracized by the Bush Administration, Syria is flirting with rogue status. But if Washington restarts dialogue, there is plenty of room for common ground.

  • Lebanon's Bloody Summer

    July 10, 2007

    Rocked by violence and sectarian hatred, Lebanon faces its presidential elections in paralysis, bound to a political system that's no longer viable and stymied over what kind of country it wants to be.

  • The Saudi Paradox

    April 10, 2007

    Recent anti-American rhetoric from the desert kingdom should not be taken at face value.

  • The CIA's Italian Job

    March 30, 2007

    The story of Hassan Nasr, a victim of "extraordinary rendition" who was interrogated and tortured in Egypt for four years, is finally being told.

  • Blowback in Lebanon

    January 31, 2007

    One big and underreported reason for Lebanon's slide toward civil war is blowback from Iraq. Fearing the sectarian bloodbath in Iraq and Iran's growing regional influence, Lebanese Sunnis are lashing out.

2006

  • People's Revolt in Lebanon

    December 20, 2006

    By empowering the dispossessed, Hezbollah has become a formidable force that is threatening the US-backed Lebanese government.

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