SO far during President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure (between August 2013 and September 2017), reports indicate 3,111 inmates have been executed in Iran. This figure could be higher as the country is known for carrying…
IN less than a fortnight, a new political party will be launched in Turkey, trying to contest the absolute dominance of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party in the country. The leading figure…
[dropcap size=small]T he United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) took a strong slap this Thursday as the United States formally notified the world heritage organization that it is withdrawing its membership.
This move comes…
ON Saturday widespread demonstrations started in all major Russian cities, from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok, the same day of President Putin’s 65th birthday.
The objective was to protest the arrest of opposition leader Alexej…
AT a meeting of the Strategic Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Saturday 10/8/17 entitled "analyzing Trump's behavior", Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard addressed recent developments regarding…
T urkey, once a model for Muslim-majority countries, has been going through an authoritarian backslide since the last several years. This trend peaked following the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The post-coup…
F ifty years ago, a fierce war between Israel and its neighbours changed the map of the Middle East and transformed Israeli politics and its relations with the wider world.
The effects of that Six-Day…
T he Matryoshka, the famous Russian wooden doll which has another smaller doll within it, and yet another, and then another, and so on. Innocuous by itself, the doll represents a type of cultural…
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T he recent Kurdish referendum in Iraq may have wide-reaching repercussions that are of great importance when considering the future of the Middle East. Experts have surmised that Iran will be the…
T he referendum in Kurdistan on Kurdish independence from Iraq has, to say the least, stoked anxiety in regional and international capitals as to what comes next.
Secession would threaten the legitimacy of Iraq’s territorial integrity,…