Category: Middle East

By Hussein Ibish | 16 June 2010 In the world of Palestinian politics, the recent weeks have been a study in contrasts. The international media has trained its focus off the shores...

By Walter Russell Mead | 14 June 2010 Both the Israelis and the Palestinians have a lot to answer for in their 100-year-plus conflict over some of the most miserable and hardscrabble...

By Barry Rubin | 09 June 2010 President Barack Obama has announced an additional $400 million in aid for housing, school construction and business development in Gaza and West Bank in his meeting...

By Omer Celik | 08 June 2010 The Israeli attack on an international aid flotilla to Gaza on May 31, which resulted in the killing of nine peace activists, is a turning...

By Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bulent Gokay** | 02 June 2010 Israel sparked an outcry across the world and Turkey, when Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship accompanying eight other vessels carrying 10,000 tonnes...

By Rahman Dag | 01 June 2010 Contemporary Middle Eastern states have not yet reached to the full level of stability in terms of domestic and foreign issues after the demise of...

By Tamer Kasikci | 01 June 2010 After the invasion of US-led forces Iraq became the focus of the international relations. Many researchers began to write about the invasion and its aftermath....

Al Jazeera | 31 May 2010   Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board. Dozens of others...

Dr. Ayla Gol | 01 June 2010 Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and the de facto existence of Iraqi Kurdistan in northern Iraq, Ankara’s fear of the disintegration of the Turkish...

By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 24 May 2010   The 2008 report of the US National Intelligence Council - which supports the Director of National Intelligence and is the centre for long-range...

By M. Huseyin Mercan | 01 April 2010      The Yemeni public have already witnessed a dangerous conflict on their own territory. The conflict was intensified by the Husi rebellion and...

By Tayfun Ustun | 01 April 2010     The subject of nation and nationalism is one of the highly controversial issues and cannot be answered by adopting a single perspective in...

By Prof. Scott Lucas | 30 March 2010   Laura Rozen of Politico returns to top inside reporter form with this piece on the division over Israel policy within the Obama Administration,...

By Prof. Barry Rubin | 29 March 2010     When you barely scratch the surface of what's being said by the Obama Administration and supporters about its current one-way feud with Israel...

Barry Rubin 05 March 2010 The story of the U.S. engagement with Syria and the sanctions issue regarding Iran’s nuclear program are fascinating. Each day there’s some new development showing how...