Galip Dalay | 13 September 2017
Can common concerns about US policies in the Middle East and Kurdish statehood ambitions bring Turkey and Iran together? Turkish-Iranian relations have always defied any general characterisation. The two neighbours have never had a straightforward [...]
Basheer Nafi | 11 September 2017
In one of his more provocative appearances, Devlet Bahceli, chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in Turkey, said recently that the Kurdish Regional Government's referendum plans might be reason enough for Turkey to declare war on [...]
Galip Dalay | 06 September 2017
Operating in Exile Has Hindered Their Effectiveness One of the more notable developments from the fight against the Islamic State (or ISIS) has been the emergence of a Kurdish public sphere in the Middle East. Since U.S. coalition [...]
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
