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Resource Guides
A lot of difficult questions and topics linger on the subject of Islam and often times it isn’t easy to find resources capable of addressing these difficult topics fairly. Muslims ...
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What the Region Is Talking About
Regional Observers Examine the Impact of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic wreaks havoc throughout the world, perennial regional debates and disagreements seem to dwarf in comparison to the challenges lying ahead. That is not to say ...
What the Region Is Talking About
Egypt’s Mubarak Leaves Behind A Complicated Legacy
News of the passing of Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak has triggered varied responses from regional observers, as each of them tries to come to terms with a legacy that ...
Journal
Iran after Khamenei: Prospects for Political Change
In 2018, after the suppression of the Green Movement following the disputed presidential election of 2009, Iran witnessed another wave of uprisings.
Russia in Syria: An Unequivocal Return to the Middle East?
This article argues that President Putin's securitization agenda stems from the second Chechen War and is far more pragmatic concerning Russian engagement in the Middle East than former Soviet policies.
Turkey and Syria: When "Soft Power" Turned Hard
The onset of the so-called Arab Spring in late 2010 took governments around the world by surprise, and Turkey's Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) government was no exception.
Book Reviews
This is a provocative title. The accusation of genocide in 1915-16 is common, but was there really a 30-year genocide, implying a steady, continuous campaign with one goal in mind, lasting from the late Ottoman period to the early days of the Turkish republic?
Few events in the history of the Middle East have had greater impact than World War I. The bloody fighting devastated the lands of the Ottoman Empire and marked the end of centuries-long political rule that had prevailed across swaths of the Middle East.
Matthew Gray offers a broad overview of the historical and current political economy of the Gulf states.