The Iran Nuclear Deal: Rewriting the Middle East Map

Surveying today’s Middle Eastern and North African landscape offers few straws of hope. Iran’s reemergence producing a...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Re-evaluating Iran-Egypt Relations: A Look at the Evolving Geopolitical Context

Egypt under President Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi appears committed to avoid falling into the contentious Sunni-Shia divide by...

Saturday, April 1, 2017

From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy

The author begins by analyzing the deep state, which as a term originates from near Turkish political history and is...

Monday, July 10, 2017

Political Islam in Tunisia: The History of Ennahda

The Middle East is a region of far-reaching importance due to past and current events in global politics. Of the many...

Thursday, March 14, 2019