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 …
The unexpected results of Tunisian legislative elections held in September and October 2019 reshuffled a highly contested political system and renewed a political elite accused of forgetting the claims and grievances raised by the 2011 revolution. Notably, popular discontent against Read More …
Edited by Luigi Narbone, Director of the Middle East Directions Programme A long cycle of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa started with the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and continued with the civil wars which followed the 2011 Arab uprisings. Whether we are currently in the Read More …
The MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). This paper was originally published in Arabic. The Druze of Sweida: the Return of the Regime Hinges on Regional and Local Conflicts Read More …
MEDirections promotes multidisciplinary field-based research with the aim of producing high-quality academic research that can be of use to policy-makers and practitioners. Policy relevance is a key element for all the publications of the Programme. Aiming to ensure scientific excellence Read More …
