August 31, 2018

No Easy Way Out of Economic Strife for Jordan

Huge protests erupted in the Jordanian capital of Amman in late May of this year, continuing into June and culminating in the resignation of Prime Minister […]
July 12, 2018

Exporting the Revolution: Iran’s Sectarian Tactics and the Rise of Afghan and Pakistani Shia Militias

A bullet ridden painting of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, the late founder or Iran’s Islamic Republic. Source: Getty Iran and its growing number of loyalists are out […]
June 6, 2018

Syria’s Shifting Sands: Demographic Engineering and Refugee Return

When Syrian refugees first began arriving in 2011, Lebanon was welcoming, as it was assumed that the crisis would be brief and that refugees would soon […]