U.S. President Barack Obama travels to Egypt early June for what the White House is billing as a major address to Muslims around the world.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) released an open letter to “President Obama and the Muslim World” today which offers a “Muslim perspective on what governments, leaders and individuals

Scott Carpenter of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy published a new PolicyWatch which foreshadows President Obama’s upcoming speech in Egypt. The main focuses of Obama’s speech are well

In The Financial Times, Roula Khalaf calls on the Obama administration to support the outcome of Lebanon’s elections -

At The New Republic, William Galston argues that how artfully President Obama balances the competing interests of enlisting active Egyptian support in the peace process and reversing the harmful effects

While Mauritania will hold elections on June 6, no major opposition figures will participate and the election of General Muhammad Ould Abdel-Aziz, who led the August 2008 coup, is nearly

The Economist tells Pakistan that in regards to the offensive with the Taliban “after the battle, prove you’re a state.”

Jackson Diehl, in The Washington Post, discusses the current strategy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, which he believes is centered around waiting. According to Diehl,

At Foreign Policy, Sarah Leah Whitson discusses how Libya is experiencing its own Arab Spring of sorts, arguing that

Marc Lynch discusses the recent move by the Obama administration to create a desk at the National Security Council for “global engagement”