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As featured in Edition 37, available here. By OPHELIA MERALI Women’s rights in the Middle East are embedded in a rich history of...

As featured in Edition 37, available here. By REMI TROVO In order to modernise the country and diversify its economy, the Saudi Arabian...

by JOE HILL The Rectorate Building at Boğaziçi University Throughout January, peaceful protests, advocating academic freedom, were...

Written by Ali Al-Enazi Tahrir Square, Cairo was the centre of the Egyptian Arab Spring Revolution. What occurred 10 years ago in the...

By ARTHUR KLEINMAN How does one define a nominally clandestine activity principally designed to illustrate beyond doubt the culpability...

BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN For the Middle East, the current moment is a foreboding one. With a number Arab states riven by conflict – in most...

Earlier this month, it was announced that Bahrain would establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. This makes Bahrain the fourth...

By TARAS TRUNOV Donald Trump is far from the first figure we would consider a peacemaker, and yet in February of 2020, it was in Trump’s...

By HANNA BAJWA The new treaty between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, known as the Abraham Accord, has been described as...

On February 29th 2020, history was made in a conditional peace agreement signed between the US and the Taliban. The deal was signed by...