By Aya Kamil | Rising Expert for the MENA Region | May 16, 2023 | Photo Credit: Flickr For international observers, Brazilian President Lula Ignacio Da Silva’s visit to Abu Dhabi on April 15, didn’t go unnoticed. The discussion agenda with his counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed of […]
By Dan Kent | September 17, 2022 With one of the largest refugee crises in Europe since World War II continuing to unfold in Ukraine, it is worth examining the various ramifications that such an outflow of people involves, including in other conflict zones. Although much has been […]
by Kathleen Taylor On June 24, the Brookings Institution held its first Brookings Debate, with three respected foreign policy analysts and a U.S. senator discussing whether the United States should put boots on the ground to fight the ISIS. Both sides provided persuasive arguments and offered well-informed perspectives, […]
by Kathleen Taylor China’s interest in Afghanistan can be defined by its desire to supplant the United States as the preeminent power in Asia and ultimately prove itself to be an undisputed global power. Photo: CCTV News China’s delayed interest in Afghanistan is a recent phenomenon that began […]
by Hannah Gais While much of the world, including the United States, has consistently failed to recognize Turkey’s World War I massacre of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide, Pope Francis’s April 12 comments made crystal clear his and the Roman Catholic Church’s stance on the matter.
by Arik Segal This blog post was originally published on i24news In the absence of political negotiations, civil society should take the lead and start by building business communities. U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent statement, in which he expressed pessimism about reaching peace in the Middle East during […]
by Manel Mselmi and Rebecca Weicht, YPFP Brussels On Sunday 28 March 2015, 20,000 people joined a march against the terrorist attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. European, African and Arab leaders gathered to support Tunisia in its struggle against extremism. It was a symbolic march […]
by Dr. Oren Litwin In an explosive campaign last year, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which also known as the Islamic State, captured much of northern Iraq. The spoils of their conquest included several large oilfields, which had been run by major multinational oil producers like […]
by Kathleen Taylor Until recently, cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Iran was considered unthinkable, but recent events suggest that a thaw in relations is more than just possible. The Middle East is a region embroiled in chaos, conflict, and uncertainty. The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq […]
by Ryan Young The current U.S. strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant wrongly involves a counterterrorism approach. There needs to be shift in perception of what ISIL currently is and what to do going forward. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), […]
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