Mesut Ozcan | 10 January 2020 | AR | TR
Iraq entered 2020 with a caretaker prime minister following his resignation after weeks of protests centered in the Shiite dominated south and the capital
Sanaa El Banna | 06 January 2020 | AR | TR
The US-mediated meetings between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan will chart the future of the three countries for decades. In April 2011 Ethiopia launched the GERD project
Saman Madadi | 06 January 2020
In ‘What is Russia up to in the Middle East’ published in 2018 by Polity Press, Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, takes readers on an encompassing journey toward Russia’s motivations to get [...]
Deniz Baran | 02 January 2020 | TR
Will the Turkey-Libya Maritime Boundaries Deal Be Legally Valid If Haftar Takes Over Tripoli? In late November 2019, Turkey and the United Nations (UN)-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) of Libya signed a memorandum [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
