07 March 2021

A Call for Associate Fellowship at Al Sharq Strategic Research

Al Sharq Strategic Research is accepting applications for associate (non-resident) fellow positions. The associate fellows are expected to contribute to the knowledge production through their publicat...
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01 June 2020

The Three Pillars of Turkey’s Syria Policy in the Face of Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic may change many things in international affairs, but thus far, it has fai...
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02 July 2019

Morsi’s Death Throws the Brotherhood into Further Turmoil

The tragic death of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi in a courtroom cage elicited minimal reactio...
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02 May 2019

Al Sharq Forum launches youth conference in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR The Al Sharq Youth Conference opened Wednesday in Malaysia with the attendance of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Wadah Khanfar, chairman of event organizer, the Al Sharq Forum. The c...
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THE DEEP STATE CONSUMES ITSELF

Wadah Khanfar | 19 February 2019

Eight years ago this month, the Egyptian people ousted their long-ruling, aging autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power. People were jubilant, hopeful and f...
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2018 Was A Dark Turn Towards Autocracy. Will 2019 Bring Change?

Wadah Khanfar | 07 January 2019 | AR

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 ...
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2018 Was a Dark Turn Towards Autocracy. Will 2019 Bring Change? | Opinion

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 ...
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Al Sharq Forum launches in Malaysia

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...
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Iran’s Water Problem

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 ho...
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What Jamal Khashoggi’s murder tells us about the West’s ‘friendly’ autocrats

Zeynep Koc | 23 October 2018

Jamal Khashoggi left this world in a way that can only be described as monstrous. Saudi Arabia has finally admitted that he was killed - but it took...
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