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Asylum seekers and refugees in Greece: Can we talk about integration?

Asylum seekers and refugees in Greece: Can we talk about integration?

Integration is considered the most durable solution for refugees in Europe and it is understood as the end product of a dynamic and multifaceted two-way process with three interrelated dimensions: a legal, an economic and a social-cultural dimension.[1] The EU Common Basic Principles, adopted in 2004, define integration as “a dynamic, two-way...

Interview with Alison Pargeter, author of Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and...

Interview with Alison Pargeter, author of Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and...

Follow this link for our book review of Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring (Saqi Books, 2016).

Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring,...

Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring,...

A lot of ink has been spilt on the role of political Islam in post-Arab Spring politics. In the beginning, there was an assumption of an almost teleological nature whereby the democratic renaissance of the region would at a minimum bring the forces of political Islam to the fore. There was even the potential for it to be rendered the single most...

Research Internship Positions (2017-2018)

Research Internship Positions (2017-2018)

The Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS) is offering three (3) internships on a voluntary basis for the current academic year. The interns, that will be supervised by senior associates, will be dealing with the study and analysis of ongoing events. Applicants have to be either postgraduate students or hold a...

Youth Summer School 2017

Youth Summer School 2017

The Department of Political Science and International Relations (PSIR), in association with the Centre for Religious Pluralism in the Middle East (CRPME), is pleased to announce and invite applications for its fourth Youth Summer School in the seaside town of Kiato. This year, for second time, Youth Summer School 2017’s focal theme is titled...

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Middle East Flashpoints

Asylum seekers and refugees in Greece: Can we talk about integration?

Thursday, 05 October 2017 00:10

Asylum seekers and refugees in Greece: Can we talk about integration?

Integration is considered the most durable solution for refugees in Europe and it is understood as the end product of a dynamic and multifaceted two-way process with three interrelated dimensions: a legal, an economic and a social-cultural dimension.[1] The EU Common Basic Principles, adopted in 2004, define integration as “a…

Lebanon: a state in constant flux

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 00:00

Lebanon: a state in constant flux

Lebanon’s size has always been inversely proportional to the magnitude of its turbulence. More of a mirror of the region’s intricacies than a catalyst, the country offers a unique regional case; although in ever-simmering tension, it manages to escape the contours of a country-wide flare-up. This is more often than…

Middle East Bulletin

Egypt: There and back again | Middle East Bulletin 32

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 00:05

Egypt: There and back again | Middle East Bulletin 32

Iraq: live it or leave it | Middle East Bulletin 31

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 13:50

Iraq: live it or leave it | Middle East Bulletin 31

Policy Papers

Recognizing Somaliland’s Independence

Wednesday, 03 August 2016 23:42

Recognizing Somaliland’s Independence

Although no state has officially recognized its independence, Somaliland operates as a democratic, de facto state since the 18th of May 1991, when it unilaterally declared its independence from the Republic of Somalia. The purpose of this article is to attempt to construct a critical debate on Somaliland’s independence and…

“Islamic democracy” with reference to the political thought of Abdolkarim Soroush and Rachid al-Ghannouchi

Monday, 08 October 2012 03:00

“Islamic democracy” with reference to the political thought of Abdolkarim Soroush and Rachid al-Ghannouchi

Religion and politics constitute a relationship around which human affairs clustered since time immemorial. Faith in one or more superior beings already existed before the very first moment that people started perceiving themselves as members of an entity, irrespectively of its level of institutionalisation of power and formality of interpersonal…

Points of view

Hold the line of collapse at Lebanon

Thursday, 15 December 2016 02:00

Hold the line of collapse at Lebanon

Lebanon is a small and internally complicated country, so why should anyone on the outside bother? And since at present it is also tranquil then maybe it is wise just to leave good enough alone. These realities, while true, cannot constitute valid reasons for open-ended benign neglect. Hidden corrosive forces…

Why Bacha Khan University? Antagonism against Modern Education!

Tuesday, 26 January 2016 02:00

Why Bacha Khan University? Antagonism against Modern Education!

There are many reasons to condemn and agonise over Pakistani Taliban’s wanton attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on 20 January, causing twenty-one deaths and injuring more than thirty people, but two definitely stand out singularly. This private institution of higher learning was named after a great humanitarian and…

Book Reviews

Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi Books, 2016

Sunday, 01 October 2017 14:41

Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring, Saqi Books, 2016

A lot of ink has been spilt on the role of political Islam in post-Arab Spring politics. In the beginning, there was an assumption of an almost teleological nature whereby the democratic renaissance of the region would at a minimum bring the forces of political Islam to the fore. There…

Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016

Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:39

Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016

‘The Battle for Syria’ is an ambitious endeavor penned by a scholar well-versed in the region’s sociopolitical intricacies. An original and timely contribution, it situates the Syrian conflict within a rapidly-changing Middle East. Indeed, the subtitle rather serves as an involuntary warning and an index of its remit, focusing mainly…

Interviews

Interview with Alison Pargeter, author of Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring

Sunday, 01 October 2017 16:03

Follow this link for our book review of Alison Pargeter, Return to the Shadows: The Muslim Brotherhood and An-Nahda since the Arab Spring (Saqi Books, 2016).

Interview with Heba Khalil

Saturday, 30 April 2016 03:00

Kurdish Report

Kurdish Report 3

Monday, 16 May 2016 03:00

Kurdish Report 3

Authors: Evangelos Diamantopoulos, Costas Faropoulos, Maria Kourpa, Iris Pappa, Charitini Petrodaskalaki, Aliki Sofianou

Kurdish Report 2

Thursday, 14 April 2016 03:00

Kurdish Report 2

Authors: Evangelos Diamantopoulos, Costas Faropoulos, Maria Kourpa, Iris Pappa, Charitini Petrodaskalaki, Aliki Sofianou

Turkey Report

Turkey Report 11

Friday, 25 November 2016 13:24

Turkey Report 11

Turkey Report 10

Friday, 25 November 2016 13:16

Turkey Report 10

Society and Culture Review

The poetic soul of the Taliban

Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:56

The poetic soul of the Taliban

"I know the black ditchesI always carry a rocket launcher on my shoulder;I know the hot trenchesI always ambush the enemy;I know war, conflict, and disputesI will tell the truth even if I am hung on the gallows..." A new anthology of Taliban poetry aims to bring some cultural understanding…

Christianity and architecture in Ethiopia: Monuments carved out of rock

Thursday, 05 April 2012 20:56

Christianity and architecture in Ethiopia: Monuments carved out of rock

African architecture is usually associated with temporality. Building methods are based on earth and water. Yet Ethiopia is endowed with grand religious architecture made out of rock, dating as far back as the 10th century.

Occupation with the (scholarly) disciplines on the part of those who have no genuine claim to them is widespread. But the pasture of stupidity is unwholesome for mankind. No one can stand up against the authority of truth, and the evil of falsehood is to be fought with enlightening speculation. The reporter merely dictates and passes on (the material). It takes critical insight to sort out the hidden truth; it takes knowledge to lay truth bare and polish it so that critical insight may be applied to it.

Ibn Khaldūn, The Muqaddimah

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