Mona Alami | 20 August 2020
A massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, killing at least 170 people and injuring another 6,000. The explosion cast light on Lebanon’s decay. Forty years after the end of the [...]
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen 
Giorgio Cafiero | 18 August 2020 | AR | TR
The Changing Balance of Power in USA-UAE Relations Since power in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was consolidated into the hands of Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ), he has become the [...]
Nikolay Kozhanov | 06 August 2020 | TR
The negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the hydrocarbon producers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is raising serious questions about the need to change the focus of Gulf energy security from
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 29 July 2020
COVID-19 has spread rapidly in Yemen, although this has gone largely under-reported. The health system in the country has collapsed due to five years of war
Ahmed Mohsen | 20 July 2020 | AR | TR
The role of governments in managing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis is what determines the outcomes in each country, among other significant factors
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 20 July 2020
The MENA region, which has been undergoing a significant transformation ever since the start of the Arab Spring, faces multidimensional security threats ranging from the flourishing of armed non-state actors to the divergent interest of regional and international powers
Sanaa El Banna | 16 July 2020
Egypt's Securitized Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic The novel Covid-19 virus was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Widely reported as originating in Wuhan (China) in late 2019, [...]
Nabeel Odeh | 10 July 2020
Alliances with Separatists: a New Israeli Strategy? Throughout history, occupying forces have always sought to find friends in their immediate neighborhoods. In this endeavor, they usually rely on the racial, ethnic and ideological differences [...]
Omar Asfour 
Samer Jabbour | 10 July 2020 | TR
The Arab world is made up of countries and communities that share history, language and culture. At the same time, the Arab countries are a heterogeneous group with diverse political and socio-economic contexts that affect health in varying ways.
Mohammad Affan 
Ismail Yaylaci | 10 July 2020 | AR | TR
In December 2018, eight years after Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia sparked the Arab Uprisings in 2011, fuel and bread riots erupted in the North-Eastern Sudanese city of Atbara
