Mona Alami | 26 March 2021
Not Obama, nor Trump: how Bidens Middle East policy is different The United States' recent international positions reflect the changes in Washington’s Middle East policy ushered in by the new Biden administration. Its statements [...]
Thomas Parker | 19 March 2021
Andrew F. March, The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought Finally, Islamic democracy would leave theory and see application. Or so it seemed to some as the Arab uprisings spread throughout [...]
Anna L. Jacobs | 15 March 2021
Gulf States and the US Need to Work Together to Stabilize Iraq Ten rockets struck Ain al-Asad airbase this month, where about 2,000 U.S. personnel are currently stationed. No casualties have so far been [...]
Sinan Hatahet | 12 March 2021 | AR | TR
Following the dramatic and quick deposing of Ben Ali in Tunis and Mubarak in Egypt, the younger and allegedly more popular Bashar al-Assad publically dismissed the possibility of himself witnessing a similar fate. Confident of his ability to navigate through murky waters and maintain a working relationship with the international community despite their previous attempts at alienation
Ümit Seven | 07 March 2021
Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East. The conflict in Syria shortly assumed regional and global dimensions following the first protests in the southern city of Deraa in [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 07 March 2021
Marib Conflict: The Limits of Biden’s Declaration to End Yemen’s War Since US President Joe Biden administration’s announced on February 4 an end to “relevant” arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and a reversal of [...]
Harun Karcic | 07 March 2021 | TR
There has been a flurry of Israeli activity in the Balkan region over the past couple of years. The most recent example was the much publicized establishment of formal diplomatic ties between Israel and Kosovo, a Muslim-majority country
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 04 March 2021
The Arab Uprisings have proved to be one of the most transformative developments in the broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) since the end of colonialism in the region. They have created new [...]
Hamdallah Baycar | 04 March 2021
Toby Matthiesen, Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't. In “Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring That Wasn’t”, Toby Matthiesen explores the impact of sectarianism during the [...]
Aya Hossam | 03 March 2021
The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform. Three years after the onset of the Arab uprisings, Jason Brownlee, Tarek Masoud, and Andrew Reynolds explain in “The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform” [...]
