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 | AR
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
Sari Orabi | 24 January 2025 | AR | TR
(This text was translated from its original Arabic version.) On Tuesday afternoon, January 21, 2025, a number of Palestinians were killed in the Jenin camp. Dozens of others were injured in an attack by [...]
Ayman Aldassouky | 17 January 2025 | AR
(This publication was translated from its original Arabic version.) Abstract: Contrary to expectations, the fall of the Assad regime did not lead to a repetition of the Iraqi scenario, as the new Syrian authority [...]
Mohammad Abdullah | 17 January 2025 | AR
At the time of writing these lines, the ongoing incidents in Jenin camp have resulted in 15 victims, which include six members of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) National Security Forces of various ranks, three children, journalist Shaza Al-Sabbagh, and a member of the Jenin Battalion, Yazid Ja’ayseh, who was wanted by the occupation forces.
