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The Muslim Brotherhood: A Challenge or Opportunity for New Egypt?

CESRAN Int.3 November 20163 November 2016

During the January Revolution in Egypt many Middle Eastern experts had two major questions in their mind. The first question was that what Mubarak’s decision would be against the demonstrations....

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Turkey’s Role in the New Middle East

CESRAN Int.3 November 20163 November 2016

On 22 February 2011, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the long standing dictator of Libya appeared on TV to declare that he was going nowhere, did not care what the people of...

Middle East

Unrest in the Middle East, the Turkish response and the Turkish model

CESRAN Int.31 October 201612 November 2019

The recent uprising in several Middle Eastern countries has caught the West by surprise and has left it unsure about which course of action to take. For too long, the...

Middle East

People, Power and Protest the Egyptian Revolution and the Arab World

CESRAN Int.31 October 201631 October 2016

People are making an alternative history while revolution is sweeping across the Arab world. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011, the unfolding pre-democracy protests and uprisings...

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Kurdish Cover Strategy in the Manbij Offensive and the fight for a united Rojava

CESRAN Int.29 July 201629 July 2016

Since the end of May 2016, Syrian Democratic Forces have started offensive to liberate the city of Manbij from the “Islamic State” militants and unite all the territories of the...

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Iraq: The Strategic Lessons of Chilcot

CESRAN Int.10 July 201610 July 2016

“The danger is, as ever with these things, unintended consequences” Prime Minister Tony Blair, 2002 It is 12 volumes and 2.6 million words in length and took 7 years to...

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BBC Accused of Bias on Aleppo

CESRAN Int.7 May 20167 May 2016

By Patrick Ward* and Salwa Amor** Anti-regime activists in Syria have accused the BBC of bias after the broadcaster used footage of the aftermath of a government attack on rebel-held...

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Iraq Analysis: Prime Minister Caught Between Status Quo & A Cleric

CESRAN Int.27 March 201627 March 2016

In Iraq, the menace of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist Movement, has reared its head again, posing serious challenges to Prime Minister Abadi and his plans...

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Saudi’s Stance on Mediation Undermines Muslim institutions

CESRAN Int.5 May 20155 May 2015

The conflict in Yemen is a multi-sided civil war rather than a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and that needs to be recognised before mediation can be made...

Middle East

Iran vs the ISIS or Struggle for Influence in the Middle East

CESRAN Int.2 February 20154 August 2019

Tactics and methods of the terrorist group ISIL “Islamic State of Iraq and Levant” which are based on radical current “Takfirism” do not only pose threat for the Middle East...

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The Iranian Role in Iraq is Underreported

CESRAN Int.14 January 201514 January 2015

News reports tell us that negotiations have been delayed between the U.S. and Iran on nuclear weapons. But the reports divert our attention on Al Qaeda/ISIS while supporting the Shia’s...

Middle East

In Syria: Towards The Elections

CESRAN Int.1 May 201417 October 2014

Dr. Dilek YİGİT Being a result of both internal and external factors and these factors’s mutual interactions, a three-year-lasting civil war has come to a dead end in Syria. On...

Middle East

Changing Equations In The Middle East

CESRAN Int.6 April 20147 April 2014

Dr. Dilek YİĞİT It is known that there are certain opinions about 2013 not been a good year in terms of Turkey’s foreign policy. Based on the developments in the...

Middle East

Constraints on Aid Conditionality: The case of the European Commission and the Palestinian Authority

CESRAN Int.1 April 20147 April 2014

The international community has come in for a great deal of criticism in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and especially within the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since the 1967...

Middle East

Syria’s Propaganda War

CESRAN Int.1 April 2014

Both sides in the Syrian conflict — and all the Middle Eastern powers — are manipulating events and rumours for their own purposes. Media access to hard facts is limited...