Marc Lynch

An Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, where he serves as the director of the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Middle East Studies Program and the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS). The author of "Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today," published by Columbia University Press. He's a non-resident Senior Fellow at Center for a New American Society and blogs at Foreign Policy under the pseudonym Abu Aardvark. His forthcoming book, "The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East," will be released by PublicAffairs on March 27.

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    Marc Lynch on Foreign Policy

    Marc Lynch's Middle East Blog on Foreign Policy

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    The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East

    The Middle East today is undergoing one of the most fundamental changes in its modern history: the empowerment of a new generation of Arabs who reject the world they inherited. In The Arab Uprising, the director of George Washington University's Institute for Middle East Studies maintains that the revolutions that have so far brought down the governments of Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya are only the beginning.

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    Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today

    Marc Lynch draws on interviews conducted in the Middle East and analyses of Arab satellite television programs, op-ed pages, and public opinion polls to examine the nature, evolution, and influence of the new Arab public sphere. Lynch, who pays close attention to what is actually being said and talked about in the Arab world, takes the contentious issue of Iraq-which has divided Arabs like no other issue-to show how the media revolutionized the formation and expression of public opinion. He presents detailed discussions of Arab arguments about sanctions and the 2003 British and American invasion and occupation of Iraq. While Arabs strongly disagreed about Saddam's regime, they increasingly saw the effects of sanctions as a potent symbol of the suffering of all Arabs. Anger and despair over these sanctions shaped Arab views of America, their governments, and themselves.