The territories ruled by the Syrian opposition are being reorganised. The leaderless revolution has given way to a seizure of power by vanguardist and ideological organisations, be it the PYD in the northeast or HTS, the former local branch of Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share its latest research project report The fallout of the US-Iran confrontation for Russia: revisiting Moscow’s calculus by Abdolrasool Divsallar and Pyotr Kortunov, a joint publication with the Russian Council of International Affairs (RIAC). Amid years of Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share its latest eBook Revisiting natural resources in the Middle East and North Africa edited by Prof. Luigi Narbone. Read the eBook here
MEDirections is delighted to share the latest research project report by Luigi Narbone on The EU-Tunisian Relationship after 2011: Resilience, Contestation and the Return of the Neglected Socio-Economic Question. With rising socioeconomic problems reigniting popular contestation, Tunisia’s democratic system is under Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share the latest research project report by Virginie Collombier, Scientific Coordinator of the MEDirections Libya Initiative, in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in the frame of the Hybrid Pathways to Resistance in the Islamic World project (HYRES), that studies Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new policy brief by Tamer Badawi, Programme Associate. The coronavirus pandemic is helping the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Iraq to function as an auxiliary relief agency besides its role as a combatant force. Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new policy brief by Abdolrasool Divsallar, Programme Associate, and Luigi Narbone, Director of the Middle East Directions Programme. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on some of the most Read More …
While most research on violent radicalisation often focuses on answering the question why people take up arms, this paper seeks to answer the opposite question: why have more Islamists not taken up arms in Egypt since 2013? In Egypt, after Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new policy brief by Abdolrasool Divsallar. This paper focuses on how the US-Iran military tension and Europe’s uneasy job running the JCPOA dispute resolution mechanism displays a complicated path to resolve Iran crisis. How Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Policy Brief from the Libya Initiative. The City in the Middle: Fragile Stability and Future Opportunities in Libya’s Sirte, by Omar Al-Hawari. Available in both English and Arabic. Libya has since April 2019 been witnessing Read More …
