Category: Middle East

By Mr FILIPPO GRANDI** | 08.06.2011 Colleagues of Coventry University and the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Vice-Chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am grateful for this opportunity to exchange...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...