Javad Heiran-Nia | 05 August 2025
The 12-day war between Iran and Israel served as a geopolitical turning point that transformed the balance of power in the Middle East and signaled the emergence of a new regional order. This war [...]
Janna Abouelkhair | 08 July 2025
Israel has been ramping up its propaganda expenditure as a form of soft power. Earlier this year, its Foreign Ministry received an additional $150m allocated to shaping public opinion on Israel.
Javad Heiran-Nia | 14 May 2025
Iran-U.S. negotiations are currently underway, with both sides having entered technical talks to examine the details in pursuit of a framework agreement. Following Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election in 2024, Iran's [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz 
Taqwa Nedal Abu Kmeil | 16 April 2024
The night that linked April 13th to April 14th, 2024, marked an inflection point in the protracted Iranian-Israeli war of attrition. For the first time in its history, Iran launched attacks on Israel from [...]
Taqwa Nedal Abu Kmeil | 17 November 2023 | AR | TR
In political analyses over the past years, an idea has become prevalent regarding the potential change in the composition of the international system and its potential impact, if it occurs, on the Middle East [...]
Betul Dogan Akkas | 02 August 2022
Biden's fruitless visit to Saudi Arabia and beyond: the elephant in the room remains Last month US President Joe Biden visited the Middle East, including Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia, in [...]
Ismail Yaylaci | 02 June 2022
One of the defining characteristics of current international politics is the decline of the relative power of the United States and the erosion of the post-war liberal international order it spearheaded
Zubir R Ahmed 
Nawzad Abdullah | 21 January 2022
Strategic dialogue between Iraq and the US (United States) came to the conclusion that coalition troops should be withdrawn on 31 December 2021, with the coalition’s mission becoming a purely advisory role
Anna L. Jacobs | 08 February 2021
What does Blinken’s confirmation hearing say about future US policy in the Middle East ? On January 19, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing in which Biden’s Secretary of State nominee [...]
Larbi Sadiki | 30 December 2020 | AR | TR
Narratives matter in politics, and the narratives of the powerful tend to reinforce their international supremacy. Barack Obama’s latest contribution to the American presidential memoir genre will likely carry significance beyond a truthhood-falsity barometer we have grown accustomed to use with the epithets, statements, and Tweets of the sitting President Donald Trump
