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The Iran-Turkey Showdown
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan A revival of, or more accurately an intensification of, the ongoing yet veiled strategic rivalry between Iran and...
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A Dynamic Scene
Turkish and Iranian officials meet in Tehran (Credit: Hamed Malekpour) Since the 1980s, Iran has defined itself as the sole revolutionary country in the Middle East. Its basis depended on a doctrinal...
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The Gulf and the Arab Spring
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal Many ask whether the radical changes of the Arab Spring will hit Gulf States. The question has two dimensions: the first asks about desire for...
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The Poster Child of the Arab Spring
A Tunisian police officer, wrapped in the country's flag, flashes a victory sign during a union-led protest calling for the protection of security personnel Tunisia has accomplished much in the last...
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Unfit for Purpose
The UN mission chief in Syria Major General Robert Mood addresses journalists in Damascus on May 26, 2012, condemning the 'brutal tragedy' in Houla In its latest global report, Amnesty International...
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Arabs Looking Forwards to a Brighter Future
Former Sudanese President Abdel Rahman Suwar Al-Dahab Unusually for an Arab president in the era before the ‘Arab Spring’, Field Marshal Abdel-Rahman Mohammed Hassan Suwar Al-Dahab ruled Sudan for only...
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Realism and the Arab Spring
President Obama Delivers Speech On Mideast And North Africa Policy According to modern realist theory, because the ordering principle of the international system is anarchy—that is, there is no central...
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Political Spring, Economic Firestorm
Dr. Nasser Saidi (Source: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) The downfall of Mubarak and Ben Ali and the explosion of protest and revolt against dictatorial governments across the Arab world has...
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The Monarchical Exception
KAMPALA, UGANDA: President of Uganda Idi Amin Dada (2nd-L) poses with some of the Organization of African Unity (OUA, from left) Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and...
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Hillary’s Uncertain Legacy
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers her farewell address in the lobby of the State Department on February 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. SOURCE: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHillary...
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My Father the Revolutionary
Mehdi Karroubi at a press conference in Tehran on June 9, 2009 (AFP/Getty Images)A few days after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi...
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She Opened the Floodgates
Egyptian protesters hold up placards and shout slogans during a demonstration in Cairo against sexual harassment on February 12, 2013. Source: KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images Barnet, London is home to...
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Syria, Two Years On
People hold candles during a candlelit vigil in central London on March 14, 2013 as part of global action on the second anniversary of the start of the Syria conflict. CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images) In...
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Jordan’s Monarch Makes Waves in The Atlantic
Jordan’s King Abdullah II attends the opening of the Arab League summit in the Qatari capital Doha on March 26, 2013. KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images The Atlantic magazine’s recent profile of Jordan’s...
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Syria’s Deadliest Month
Rebels fighters prepare to fire a portable canon against an adjacent Syrian government-held building during fighting on February 27, 201 in Deir Ezzor. Source: ZAC BAILLIE/AFP/Getty Images London,...
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The Other Shore
A man walks in the Sahara desert that links north and southern Africa. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty ImagesSome 400 years ago, the sultan of Morocco, Ahmad Al-Mansour, became increasingly aware of Spanish...
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Going AWOL?
Syrian protesters hold banners referring to the international conference on the Syrian crisis being held in Paris during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Kfar Nubul in the northwestern province...
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Will Washington Push for Women’s Rights?
CAIRO, EGYPT – JULY 04: An Egyptian woman celebrates in Tahrir Square, the day after former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, was ousted from...
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The Building Blocks of Stability
Unemployed Yemenis wait for work offers on a sidewalk in Sanaa, on April 6, 2013. Unemployment rates among young people in Yemen can reach as high as 40 percent. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images)A...
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A Dark Winter Ahead
Trucks and APCs beloning to the Egyptian riot police are parked in the main street leading to Egypt’s landmark Tahrir Square on August 20, 2013, in Cairo, Egypt. (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)For...
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