Read It Now: The Possible/Probable Main Crisis for 2012
By BARRY RUBIN | 16.05.2011 Save this note. Last year I predicted that Egypt's instability might well be the big story of 2011. Why wait until December? The central...
The Muslim Brotherhood: A Challenge or Opportunity for New Egypt?
By Tamer Kasikci | 20.03.2011 Hasan Al-Banna Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood During the January Revolution in Egypt many Middle Eastern experts had two major questions in their mind. The first...
Unrest in the Middle East, the Turkish response and the Turkish model
By Paula Sandrin | 17.03.2011 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....
The Middle East after Mubarak: Government Reactions and the International Community
By Dr. Guy Burton | 19.02.2011 The events in Egypt – the Arab world’s largest country – are having reverberations across the Middle East. The reasons for the pro-democracy demonstrations in...
Wikileaks and Egypt: has Obama Got Away With It?
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar | 19.02.2011 There is a crescendo of self-congratulation in the US State Department about the lack of damage to America’s standing from the continuing Wikileaks’ release...
The Middle East after Mubarak: Government Reactions and the International Community
By Neil Ketchley | 05 February 2011 By Maher Sharif (with introduction and translation by Neil Ketchley) We do not yet know into what shape events in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere...
What does it mean to be an Arab leftist today?
By Neil Ketchley | 05 February 2011 Maher Sharif (with introduction and translation by Neil Ketchley) The 'Global 1989' as event (and LSE IDEAS research project) remains a critical point of disjuncture...
Isolated: The West or Iran?
By Maaike Warnaar 03 January 2011 Western policy makers should be better aware of what their actions mean in the context of Iran's political discourse. If they were, they would...
Alan Hart: Zionism Needs the Israeli Jews to Feel Frightened
By Kourosh Ziabari | 10 November 2010 In occupation of the West Bank, Israel has decided on a final round of ethnic cleansing - provoking an all-out confrontation with the Palestinians...
Frontier Politics: Israel, Palestine and the Current Talks
By Dr. Guy Burton | 8 September 2010 With direct talks starting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, a range of different issues are on the table – and will...
Obama Administration Tell Israel: Makes Us Look Good for Election and We Will Reward You
By Prof. Barry Rubin | 01 October 2010 Contents of a White House letter have been published saying what the Obama Administration will offer Israel if it extends the moratorium...
No End for US War of Words against Iran
By Kourosh Ziabari | 29 August 2010 Aesop's fable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf too often" is being heard from the mouthpieces of Israel and the United States these...
Iran Document: Mousavi on “Constitutional Monarchy” Movement
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 11 August 2010 Mir Hossein's letter of 5 August, published in Rah-e-Sabz and translated by Khordaad 88: We are marking the anniversary of the "Constitutional Monarchy"...
No, Israel is about to Attack Iran Now, Here’s Why
By Prof. Barry Rubin | 23 July 2010 How do you know someone has no idea what they're talking about? Answer: They predict that Israel is about to attack Iran. From the...
The Silent Palestinian Refugee Crisis
By Taylor Long, Alistair Harris | 17 July 2010 In 2007, the jihadi group Fatah al-Islam infiltrated the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon, engaging the Lebanese army in...