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 [...]
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
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 16 January 2019 | TR
The YPG's Search for Legitimacy in War-Torn Syria The People's Protection Units (YPG), which is widely known to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Syria, has been attempting to gain [...]
Filippo Dionigi | 15 January 2019 | AR | TR
Forced displacement is a ubiquitous phenomenon today, and the Middle East is no exception. Western Asia and North Africa are areas in which some of the most extensive refugee crises in the world have taken place in recent years
Abdullah al-Ahsan | 09 January 2019 | AR | TR
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, formerly known as Organization of the Islamic Conference and popularly known as the OIC, was born on the basis of a resolution adopted at a Muslim summit held on September 22–25, 1969 in Rabat, Morocco
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 [...]
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.
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
