Marc Lynch is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at

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, where he is also director of both the Institute for Middle East Studies and the Middle East Studies Program. Lynch is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the

Center for a New American Security The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a Washington, D.C. based think tank established in 2007 by co-founders Michèle Flournoy, board member of military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, and Kurt M. Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Paci ...

, and is on the editorial board of PS Political Science & Politics. Marc Lynch also writes a blog for '' Foreign Policy''. Lynch received his BA from Duke University and his MA and PhD from

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Publications

* 1999: ''State Interest and Public Spheres: the International Politics of Jordan's Identity,'' a study of Jordanian society and politics ( New York:

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). * September/October 2007: "Brothers in Arms: Memo to the Muslim Brotherhood on How to Talk to America". Foreign Policy. * 2007: Voices of the New Arab Public:

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, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today (Columbia Univ. Pr.). * July/August 2010: "Veiled Truths: The Rise of

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in the West", Foreign Affairs 89, no.4, pp.138-147. * 2011: "After

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

: The Limits and Promise of the Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State". Perspectives on Politics 9, no.2, pp.301-310. * 2011: Revolution in the Arab World:

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, Egypt, And the Unmaking of an Era (Foreign Policy). eBook. * March 2012: ''The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East'', a book about the so-called

Arab Spring The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and econo ...

( PublicAffairs). * 2014: The Tourniquet: A Strategy for Defeating the

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and Saving Syria and Iraq (Center for a New American Security) * 2014: The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East (Columbia University Press) * April 2016: ''The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East'' (PublicAffairs, United States).

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