Subject: Editors' Picks: Saudi Arabia's big present for Washington; and the Middle East's Christians deal with a year of chaos
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:36:06 -0500 (EST)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Tuesday, December 23

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#1 
THE LIGHTHOUSE DIMS: Once the cosmopolitan heart of the Arab World, Alexandria is now the base of Egypt’s hardline Salafist movement that has tied its fortunes to the country’s autocratic president: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JHA9696 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JDA3197>

#2
MERRY CHRISTMAS, AMERICA: Saudi Arabia isn’t flooding the oil market to cripple America’s shale revolution, it’s doing it to win favor with Washington by weakening Russia and Iran: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JIAd729 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JEA8341>

#3
A YEAR OF FEIGNED OUTRAGE: In Nigeria and Pakistan, attacks on schoolchildren have made the world rise up in anger. Unfortunately, that's all it did, writes FP’s Leela Jacinto: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JJAb1a1 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>: 
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JFA76bf>

#4
THE IRREGULARS: Should mentally ill lone-wolf attackers, like those in Australia and Canada, be considered terrorists? <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JKAabce target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JGA8ac3>

#5
PICKING UP THE PIECES: The rise of the Islamic State has devastated the Middle East’s Christians. With 2014 coming to a close, they are having to confront the destruction of their world: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnnnMPoDAF_D5JMA3aee target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c723xwq.40tw/VJnkKMPoDAF_DxfXA9ecd>

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