Engy Fouda | 28 February 2019
Political Detainees in Egypt Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently lashed out in defense of capital punishment during the inaugural summit of European Union and Arab League leaders in the Red Sea resort of [...]
Fatih Şemsettin Işık | 27 February 2019 | TR
General elections are upcoming in Israel and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely keep his post despite facing police investigations over several cases of alleged corruption. Even if he is removed from the [...]
Wadah Khanfar | 19 February 2019
THE DEEP STATE CONSUMES ITSELF Eight years ago this month, the Egyptian people ousted their long-ruling, aging autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. People were jubilant, hopeful and forward-looking in Tahrir square. This was a rare [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 18 February 2019 | AR | TR
Egypt: Al-Nour Party Expresses Reservations about the Term “Civil” State in Constitutional Amendments While the Salafist al-Nour Party didn’t object the proposed amendment to the constitution aimed at extending the presidential term, Ahmed Khalil Khairallah, [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 13 February 2019 | AR | TR
This book examines and analyses the ongoing transformation of Political Islam Movements (PIMs) in seven countries where the Arab uprisings phenomenon took different forms: massive mobilization that induced leadership change
Enes Calli | 12 February 2019
The PKK's miscalculation of regional politics from the ceasefire to the present day In 2013, Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), visited Ankara and met with Turkish officials. “Kurds [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 05 February 2019 | AR | TR
Algeria's “Hams” movement to run against Bouteflika in the upcoming presidential elections In an “unprecedented” move, the Algerian Islamist party, Movement of Society for Peace (MSP) known as “Hams”, decided to nominate its leader, Abderrazak [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 25 January 2019
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 23 January 2019 | AR | TR
1- The Muslim Brotherhood of Sudan calls on Al-Bashir to stop the bloodshed in the country The Secretary General of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, Awadallah Hasan, called on the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, [...]
Mohamed Hosam Hafez | 21 January 2019 | AR | TR
The Arab League was created in the post-colonial era. However, the structure and regulations of the Arab League proved incompatible with the complex problems of the then-emerging Arab countries
