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 [...]
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 [...]
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
