Mustafa Kaymaz | 02 January 2020
In her book, Hezbollah: Mobilization and Power, Aurélie Daher[1] attempts to explain how Hezbollah sustains its mobilization efforts and bond with its public. She employs a meaning-making approach because she thinks that the other factors, [...]
Marian Karagyozov | 31 December 2019
Mehran Kamrava, Inside the Arab State The protest wave which shook many states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 has changed both [...]
Kamaran Palani | 26 December 2019 | AR | TR
What are the root causes of the current protests in Iraq? What implications do the protests have for state-society relations? And what can be done? what is happening in Iraq reflects
Ralitsa Trifonova | 25 December 2019
Ever since independence, the military has played an important role in the politics of many countries in Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With time, this influential actor has also become a significant economic player, [...]
Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin | 25 December 2019
On the theme of ‘the Role of Development in Achieving National Security’, the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 was held from December 18 to 21 in the Malaysian national capital. Around 450 leaders, delegates, scholars, [...]
Mona Alami | 24 December 2019 | AR | TR
Protestors have been unyielding in Lebanon, denouncing the worsening financial and economic crisis, attributed to the incompetence and corruption of the political class which has governed the country for decades.
Mehmet Akif Koc | 24 December 2019
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (ed.), The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf Strategically located and geopolitically important, the Middle East forms a natural bridge between the three oldest continents (Asia, Europe and Africa) in terms [...]
Tamer Badawi | 26 November 2019 | AR | TR
The protests in Iraq and Lebanon which erupted in the second half of 2019 have created a challenge for Iranian interests as they seek to shake-up Tehran-backed political regimes.
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 20 November 2019
When describing increased Al Qaeda activity in Yemen as “deeply worrying” in his statement, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani was drawing attention to the [...]
Basheer Nafi | 18 November 2019 | TR
Nine years since the outbreak of the Arab revolutions, internal tensions and instability are still shaping the situation in the Arab Mashreq region
