Mohammed Sinan Siyech | 22 April 2021 | AR | TR
The Islamic State has gradually ramped up its attacks in Syria and Iraq since the mid-2020. This brief examines the group’s recent activities in both nations to interrogate if the group is undergoing a phase of resurgence in the region. Accordingly, it maps out the different factors that are aiding the group and provides some policy implications for governments in the region
Sinan Hatahet | 12 March 2021 | AR | TR
Following the dramatic and quick deposing of Ben Ali in Tunis and Mubarak in Egypt, the younger and allegedly more popular Bashar al-Assad publically dismissed the possibility of himself witnessing a similar fate. Confident of his ability to navigate through murky waters and maintain a working relationship with the international community despite their previous attempts at alienation
Omer Aslan | 07 December 2020 | TR
For the last two years, several members of the League of Arab States (LAS) have taken incremental steps to bring Syria back under the LAS tent. Oman never cut diplomatic ties with Syria, and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain reopened their embassies in Damascus. Several other Arab states such as Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, and Lebanon have been calling for Syria’s return to the League
Basheer Nafi | 05 May 2016
The fate of Aleppo is also the fate of Syria and the region People must take to the streets to tell the Russians and the Americans that they do not approve of the continuation of [...]
Wadah Khanfar | 29 April 2016
Khanfar: “Our Ummah needs a new type of leadership with clear vision and optimism.” Al Sharq Youth Forum’s New Era conference
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 08 March 2016
A Timeline for the ongoing conflict in Syria
Omer Aslan | 17 February 2016
The Russians flocking to Syria, a ‘lame duck’ American President, and a more daring Iran after the implementation of the nuclear deal with the west all imply that the ‘Islamic Alliance’ proposed hastily and clumsily by Saudi Arabia deserves more serious thought than it has hitherto been granted.
Basheer Nafi | 17 February 2016
In Syria, as well as over other issues in MENA, the Obama administration no longer has the appetite to support the Arab revolution
Galip Dalay | 18 December 2015
Theocratic apocalypse and secular totalitarianism are strange bedfellows when it comes to their visions for political space and active citizenry.
Basheer Nafi | 14 December 2015
It does not seem that Putin has accomplished any of his own objectives
