Category: Middle East

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...

Mohamed ElBaradei was greeted by cheering crowds upon his return to Cairo. Now for the hard part   David Kenner 19 February 2010   Austrian Airlines Flight 863 touched down...

Prof. Scott Lucas 23 February 2010 Yesterday a prominent Iran correspondent for an international news agency wrote, as an afterthought on a post about the “Iranian Cyber Army”, “The authorities...

Prof. Barry Rubin 22 February 2010   How do leading Arab forces view the U.S. and Iranian maneuverings over Tehran’s drive to get nuclear weapons, the world’s number one political...

Daniel Kurtzer 08 February 2010   Ariel Sharon was considered the godfather of the Israeli settlements movement. His ardent support of settlements construction and the legitimacy he lent to the...

Dorian Jones 29 January 2010   Iranians fleeing the Tehran government's crackdown on its opponents are increasingly seeking refuge in Turkey.   Months of continuing political instability in Iran and the...

Prof. Scott Lucas Britain’s Financial Times has published a lengthy interview with Mehdi Karroubi. The full interview, covering Karroubi’s political involvement from 1979 to the present, is well worth a read, but...

Prof. Scott Lucas   insideIRAN publishes an interview with one of the most prominent US-based expatriate Iranians:   Fatemeh Haghighatjoo was a member of Iran’s Parliament from 2000 to 2004, and...

Prof. Barry Rubin   There is an iron rule in modern democratic politics that parties periodically ignore to their peril: if a party goes too far to an extreme--to the...