Ibrahim Ba Matraf | 11 July 2025
The recent political movements in Hadhramaut, particularly the Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance's announcement of its intention to establish self-rule in Hadhramaut, represent a fundamental development in the Yemeni political arena. This is not only because [...]
Janna Abouelkhair | 08 July 2025
Israel has been ramping up its propaganda expenditure as a form of soft power. Earlier this year, its Foreign Ministry received an additional $150m allocated to shaping public opinion on Israel.
Javad Heiran-Nia | 14 May 2025
Iran-U.S. negotiations are currently underway, with both sides having entered technical talks to examine the details in pursuit of a framework agreement. Following Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election in 2024, Iran's [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 06 May 2025
Nearly five months have passed since December 8th, 2024, in Syria. The initial revolutionary fervor has now given way to sobering realities. In other words, the country has returned from its honeymoon to grim reality on the ground.
Habiba Ali | 06 May 2025
Jérôme Drevon’s From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics (Oxford University Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive and insightful examination of this transformation. Focusing primarily on Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra—later restructured as [...]
Ramzy Baroud | 14 April 2025 | AR
The United States’ approach to foreign policy, both in the Middle East and globally, can be largely understood through a binary framework: states and actors are categorized as either integral to US global security interests or as threats to those interests. This fundamental dichotomy permeates US political discourse, evident in frequent references to the security of Israel, Europe, and the Gulf States. These concerns are consistently rationalized through the prism of US national security.
Tayseer Mohamedali | 21 March 2025
The traditional narrative of studying jihadi politics has often focused on understanding how these groups operate and analyzing them from a Western-centric perspective. Even within conflict studies, the emphasis has primarily been on highlighting the clashes between jihadi groups and Western powers, while the internal dynamics of these groups have been largely overlooked
Taqwa Nedal Abu Kmeil | 03 February 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself at a critical juncture as his governing coalition faces internal fractures. The recent threats of withdrawal from his ultra-right-wing allies, combined with growing public support for the [...]
Abdullah Yasir Atalan | 03 February 2025 | AR
Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office resurrects an “America First” approach at odds with the more multilateral style of his predecessor. Biden emphasized alliances and multilateral solutions during his term, but Trump viewed [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 27 January 2025 | AR
After a decade of hiatus, Türkiye is again undergoing a renewed peace process with the PKK. Hamas’ Al Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, 2023, dramatically altered geopolitics in the Middle East
