Some Weak Tea for the Third Intifada Max Segal Oct 14, 2015 Mahmood Abbas, President of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestine’s ruling party, did…
Hajj Tragedy Highlights New Horizons for Iranian-Saudi Relations Conor Swimm Oct 9, 2015 In the wake of the tragic stampede that occurred on Sept. 24th during Hajj, an annual holy pilgrimage to Mecca,…
Deal or No Nuclear Deal: How the Crisis with Iran Began and Why the End is Now in… Max Blaisdell Mar 24, 2015 When the staunchly conservative members of the United States government echo and applaud the fear-mongering…
The Fallacy of Ideological Warfare: How Overemphasis on Religion Perpetuates… Benjamin Aloi Feb 2, 2015 The world is in the midst of an ideological war…at least this is what mainstream media organisations and…
ISIS and the Sacred State Max Blaisdell Oct 23, 2014 The expressed mission of ISIS is the creation of a caliphate to rule over the entire Muslim ummah, the entire…
Karama has No Walls: An Interview with Sara Ishaq Benedikt van den Woldenberg Feb 24, 2014 < Karama has No Walls was recently nominated for this year’s Oscar in the category Documentary Short. It is a…
Has “Zero Problems with Neighbours” Failed? Benedikt van den Woldenberg Dec 20, 2013 The current crisis in Syria has seen a largely inconsistent and vacillating foreign policy response from Turkey.…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 6: Frontier Areas of the Arab Spring:… Benedikt van den Woldenberg Nov 20, 2013 While the Arab Spring rocked much of the Arab world, upending the regional political order, states in the…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 5: Relative Calm in (formerly)… Benedikt van den Woldenberg Nov 12, 2013 While several Arab republics have witnessed regime transitions, there are some other republics that have…
Wrapping Up the Arab Spring (2011-2013) Part 4: Monarchical Persistance and… Benedikt van den Woldenberg Oct 31, 2013 So far, it seems that republics in the Middle East were far more affected by uprisings than their monarchical…