Galip Dalay | 23 August 2017
By adopting a novel approach to fragmentation in the Middle East and North Africa, regional players may see the collapse of state unity as an opportunity for a new interconnected order It is now a [...]
Basheer Nafi | 23 July 2017
The Arab League's silence over the Gulf crisis and inability to keep the GCC from splitting reflects a post-WWI regional order in its final throes If seen as a purely Arab affair, there is no [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 23 July 2017
It's not likely that the defeat of Daesh in Mosul is going to mean the end of the group itself. So long as the political conditions for radicalism and sympathy for Daesh's ideology exists, territorial [...]
Galip Dalay | 10 July 2017
The Arab Spring barely touched the region's monarchies. But as the Qatari crisis shows, for the region's kings, the era of stability and exceptionalism is coming to an end The Arab Spring was an event [...]
Dalal Bajes | 06 July 2017
This article highlights the two models of the Palestinian social movements: BDS and Palestinians of Europe Conference. It will focus on goals of these movements, strategies, achievements and obstacles they face to reach their goals.
Wadah Khanfar | 06 July 2017
Many springs have gone by since those few months in 2011 when Wadah Khanfar decided that the television network he headed, Al Jazeera,
Basheer Nafi | 06 July 2017
Egyptian and Saudi academics are taking aim at Doha - but history teaches that the role of scholars is far from straightforward
Wadah Khanfar | 29 June 2017
Many states at different times have tried to contain al-Jazeera or force it to tone down its coverage. But with last week’s call to shut the network down, the Saudis and Emiratis have surpassed themselves. The [...]
Galip Dalay | 25 June 2017
Any sane person will immediately recognize that the list of demands handed to Qatar was not meant to be accepted The much-awaited list of demands from the countries that have imposed a blockade on Qatar [...]
Wadah Khanfar | 20 June 2017 | AR
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and most Gulf states have joined an unprecedented diplomatic and economic attack on Qatar — cutting off the thumb which sticks out in to the Gulf — accusing it of funding terrorism. But at the centre [...]
