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No End in Sight: The Syrian Conflict in 2016
Once magnificent cities now lying in ruins. Wailing mothers, holding lifeless infants to their chests. Ghastly …
For Caliphate and Country: Britain’s Imperial…
Prime Minister David Cameron cannot ignore the legacy of Britain's colonial history in the Arab world as he begins…
Erdogan’s Balancing Act
As the new year unfolds, Turkey—under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan—will continue to hold an increasingly…
A Weakened Saudi Arabia and Its Rift With Iran
After a rapid, and unfortunate, series of events that took place in the Middle East during the first weekend in…
The Reasons Behind the Ploy: The EU Turkey Summit
On November 29th, the European Union (EU) signed a deal with Turkey regarding the waves of Syrian and other…
Tunisian Exceptionalism? Revisiting Recent Democratic…
The protest movements of the Arab Spring prompted a major reevaluation amongst policymakers and academics alike…
The Human Cost of Human Error
It has been, at time of writing, two months and one week since the U.S. airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières …
Persistent Gender Pay Gap: Is America As Developed As It…
While the extent of disparity between the wages of men and women varies by country and by profession, working women…
How Hezbollah’s Involvement in Syria Sheds Light on the…
On Thursday, November 12, a double suicide attack killed 43 people and injured hundreds in the predominantly Shiite…
Anonymous #OpISIS: Can Cyber Warfare Win the War on…
Anonymous declares war on ISIS, November 16, 2015.
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How ISIS Terror Has Reshaped World Politics
The mass slaughter in Paris, the lock down in Brussels, the anti-Arab paranoia on the European far right, the…
The Age of Erdogan: Why Turkey Voted AKP
The results of Turkey’s recent parliamentary election were anything but ordinary. Within the past five months,…