Alp Cenk Arslan | 07 January 2019
The return of the dynasty: Could Assad be readmitted to the international community? During the long period of Syrian crisis, many interesting turning points have been experienced. One of the most remarkable of these [...]
Wadah Khanfar | 06 January 2019
Throughout 2018, the Arab world continued to slide down to new lows. We stand before brutality led by blood-thirsty generals, by despotic princes and by corrupt politicians. It is a scene that will burden the [...]
Nicholas Gjorvad | 04 January 2019 | AR | TR
The 2013 coup in Egypt, ending the presidency of Muhammad Morsi after a chaotic year in power, was seen by many to symbolize the weakening of Islamist parties’ political appeal in the Middle East and North African
Muhanad Seloom | 28 December 2018 | AR | TR
The socio-political drivers of conflict in Iraq have shifted. For the first time since 2003, Iraqis are seeking to form a representative government led by competent officials rather than choosing representation through customary
James M. Dorsey | 27 December 2018 | AR | TR
If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the window and increasingly adopt attitudes associated with a global power, it is the greater Middle East, a region that stretches from the Atlantic coast of Africa to north-western China.
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 22 December 2018 | TR
Al Sharq Forum gladly announces that it has launched its Kuala Lumpur office yesterday in Malaysia. The country's legacy of tolerance, diversity, and coexistence serves as an inspiration to Al Sharq Forum whose mission is [...]
Tamer Badawi | 12 December 2018 | AR
Water scarcity in Iran threatens not just its agricultural self-sufficiency but may also strain its energy exports in the long term, two sectors it hopes to rely on to weather new economic sanctions. On October [...]
Mona Alami | 10 December 2018 | AR | TR
As tensions rise in Idlib, the current political equilibrium in Syria no longer appears sustainable in the long run. The parties engaged there have various and often mutually exclusive goals
Fatima Al Smadi | 07 December 2018 | AR | TR
In May 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid down twelve conditions for Iran to meet in order to end the sanctions that the U.S. had re-imposed after withdrawing from the nuclear deal.
Chafic Choucair | 07 December 2018
This paper examines the role of the jihadi movement’s "ulema" and its future, particularly in light of the dialectical relationship that links them with jihadi discourse and jihadi movements.
