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Interview with Rutu Modan, author of Exit Wounds and the Property

Interview with Rutu Modan, author of Exit Wounds and the Property

Lecture by Anthony O’Mahony on «Christians and the current crisis in the Middle East»

Lecture by Anthony O’Mahony on «Christians and the current crisis in the Middle East»

The Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS) of the University of the Peloponnese and the Institute for Alternative Policies (ENA) organise a lecture by Anthony O' Mahony, Reader in Heythrop College of University of London on: «Christians and the current crisis in the Middle East» Both the lecture and...

USA in the Middle East: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in | Middle East Bulletin...

USA in the Middle East: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in | Middle East Bulletin...

Interview with Nikolaos van Dam, author of Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria

Interview with Nikolaos van Dam, author of Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria

Nikolaos van Dam, Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, I.B. Tauris, 2017

Nikolaos van Dam, Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, I.B. Tauris, 2017

Nikolaos van Dam’s book is the work of a trenchant scholar and diplomat with a clear understanding of Syrian dynamics: the author is a decade-long Syria watcher who laments the country’s multiple plights. His book is an austere distillation of wrong choices, oversights and stubborn obsessions. It’s also a linear history of the Syrian conflict:...

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Middle East Flashpoints

Sudan: Economic grievances and protest

Thursday, 26 April 2018 10:13

Sudan: Economic grievances and protest

Once more Sudan is stricken by protest. Sudanese are on the streets due to the increase of bread prices. The government responded violently towards the dissent. Five people lost their lives, around 60 have been arrested including the leader of the Sudanese Communist Party Mokhtar al- Khatib, and the regime…

We need to talk about Egyptian elections!

Monday, 26 March 2018 11:53

We need to talk about Egyptian elections!

While the 2018 elections are approaching, few believe that anything will change in the army’s control of the Egyptian regime. When the regime imprisoned opposing candidates General Sami Hafez Ana and Khaled Ali and others withdrew from the electoral race, it was made crystal clear that Al-Sisi’-s position would not…

Middle East Bulletin

USA in the Middle East: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in | Middle East Bulletin 34

Thursday, 07 June 2018 20:52

USA in the Middle East: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in | Middle East Bulletin 34

Lebanon recontextualized | Middle East Bulletin 33

Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:14

Lebanon recontextualized | Middle East Bulletin 33

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

2018: New Saplings across the Hindu-Kush!

Friday, 12 January 2018 01:18

2018: New Saplings across the Hindu-Kush!

Where a rather detailed visit to the adjoining regions of Southwest Asia and the Gulf allows one to reconnect with the friends, fellow thinkers and civil society activists, it also affords a sought-after opportunity to observe first-hand all the vital developments. Dubai’s unending sky rises, its boulevards infested with endless…

Sinai to Sindh: The Battle for Muslim Soul

Thursday, 07 December 2017 11:10

Sinai to Sindh: The Battle for Muslim Soul

Egypt’s biggest mass slayings, committed in a mosque in northern Sinai on 24 November during the Friday congregational prayers, have once again underlined the urgency to locate the causes of this by now rather familiar self-immolation across several Muslim regions. With 305 worshippers including 27 children dead and 135 seriously…

Book Reviews

Nikolaos van Dam, Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, I.B. Tauris, 2017

Wednesday, 09 May 2018 09:42

Nikolaos van Dam, Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria, I.B. Tauris, 2017

Nikolaos van Dam’s book is the work of a trenchant scholar and diplomat with a clear understanding of Syrian dynamics: the author is a decade-long Syria watcher who laments the country’s multiple plights. His book is an austere distillation of wrong choices, oversights and stubborn obsessions. It’s also a linear…

Dawn Chatty, Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State, Hurst Publishers, 2017

Wednesday, 11 April 2018 18:11

Dawn Chatty, Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State, Hurst Publishers, 2017

Dawn Chatty’s book is a remarkable achievement in that it intertwines deep historical knolwedge with the impressions of the ever-curious traveller. The author has spent many years working in and on Syria. The book is not written from the perspective of the political sciencist, but that of the historian and…

Interviews

Interview with Rutu Modan, author of Exit Wounds and the Property

Sunday, 17 June 2018 13:29

Interview with Rutu Modan, author of Exit Wounds and the Property

Interview with Nikolaos van Dam, author of Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria

Wednesday, 09 May 2018 09:51

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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