[caption id="attachment_55248733" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish riot police use a water cannon to disperse protesters during a demonstration…

[caption id="attachment_55248683" align="alignnone" width="620"] A supporter of Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi holds up a poster of the Field Marshal during a…

[caption id="attachment_55248725" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jamal PenjwenyPhotograph from the series Saddam is Here, 2009-2010. ©Jamal Penjweny,…

[caption id="attachment_55248704" align="alignnone" width="620"] Workers at the Iranian Khodro car manufacturing plant make Iranian car models as…

[caption id="attachment_55248653" align="alignnone" width="620"] Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz (2nd L) is welcomed by his Japanese…

[caption id="attachment_55248650" align="alignnone" width="620"] United States Secretary of State John Kerry (L) departs Montreux on January 23, 2014…

[caption id="attachment_55248676" align="alignnone" width="620"] File photo of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, taken on January 29,…

[caption id="attachment_55248619" align="alignnone" width="620"] A man reacts to the destruction in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on February 16…

[caption id="attachment_55248606" align="alignnone" width="619"] Displaced Syrians wait to cross the Orontes river into Turkey on February 5, 2014. …

[inset_left]Religion and State in Syria: The Sunni Ulama from Coup to RevolutionBy Dr. Thomas PierretCambridge University Press, 287 pagesCambridge,…