With global actors increasingly showing interest in the MENA region and Africa, several new players have emerged and continuously work towards expanding their presence and influence in the region, challenging the existing balance and creating new dynamics. In this framework, Read More …
The Middle East Institute of Washington DC organised a panel discussion on Reconstruction in the Civil War Zones in the Middle East addressing ways for mitigating the effects of these violent and destructive conflicts. The panel will showcase the findings of the recently Read More …
While conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are still ongoing, stabilisation and reconstruction remain top priorities on the international and regional agenda. Years of war have created new political and economic dynamics in Syria, Libya and Read More …
Abstract | Robert Springborg will provide the basis for the discussion by presenting his new book ‘Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa’ (Polity Press, 2020), which focuses on national and regional politics in the Middle East and Read More …
Protests erupted in Lebanon on 17 October are creating a unique and rare moment of unity in a country characterised by sectarian divisions and widespread corruption. Prime Minister Saad Hariri bowed down to protesters and resigned on 29 October. This Read More …
On 9 October 2019, two days after President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from the Syrian-Turkish border zone, Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring in north-east Syria. These developments led to a rapid and dramatic change in the Read More …
Abstract: Instabilities in Syrian Kurdish areas have regional implications. In Iran, having both Kurdish and Turkish minorities, this might lead to new social divides and instabilities. This was highlighted in recent weeks by clashes between Turkish and Kurdish supporters in Read More …
Abstract | Rebecca Murray will present insights from her recent fieldwork in Libya, focusing on the situation since the launch of the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces’ campaign on the capital Tripoli in April 2019, and the proxy war that’s Read More …
Abstract | Dr. Patrycja Sasnal will present her new book ‘Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam’. The book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Read More …
In February 2019, Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb signed a historic declaration of fraternity, calling for peace between nations, religions and races in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This document was not only the outcome of Read More …
