Barak Barfi is a research fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Commentaries by Barak Barfi
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Libya’s Anti-Military Militias
NEW YORK – As the United States struggles to understand last September’s attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi, which took the lives …
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Sinai’s Second-String Security
SHARM EL-SHEIKH – In the wake of an attack that killed 16 security officers in the Sinai Peninsula in August, the Egyptian military has ratc…
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Libya’s Unwilling Revolutionaries
TRIPOLI – Egypt is not the only place where the bright hopes of the Arab Spring are fading. From attacks against Western governments to ethn…
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Libya’s Transition to Transition
SIRTE, LIBYA – Although Libyans are now celebrating the first anniversary of the revolution that toppled Muammar el-Qaddafi, they are increa…
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Rebuilding the Ruins of Qaddafi
TRIPOLI – With the creation of a new government, Libya’s leaders should finally be able to focus on organizing the transition from the autho…
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Rebuilding Libya
BENGHAZI – Six months after Libyan rebels took up arms against the country’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, they have finally toppled him.…
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How New is Egypt’s “New” Foreign Policy?
CAIRO – In the months since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, his successors have signaled a shift in foreign policy by reachi…
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The Road to Tripoli
BENGHAZI – In the days since the February 17 revolution against Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, opposition forces in Benghazi have fo…
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Yemen’s Regime Change Gets Personal
SANAA – When Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered his military on March 18 to fire on peaceful protesters calling for his resignatio…
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The Battle for Bahrain
MANAMA - The fervor for change that inspired revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is now rocking Bahrain. But the uprising in Manama differs fro…
Libya’s Anti-Military Militias
Paul Mathew Mathew: America has yet again unleashed another monstrosity here. You would think they might have learned from their meddling when they created Al Qaeda and funded Bin Laden. Or even earlier, they might…
Rebuilding Libya
Veronique O'Donoghue: The NCT will without doubt have to redouble their efforts in post-Qaddafi Libya, though one week after this article is posted, another article, published in the Irish Times, quotes Mustafa Abdel Jalil…