June 7, 2017
With the recurring territorial losses that ISIS has endured during the past months, the decrease in financial income, plunge of foreign fighter flow, and the upcoming […]
May 4, 2017
The denouement of the Turkish referendum melodrama, which has seen the ruling party’s proposal to change the country’s political system from parliamentary to presidential approved by […]
April 24, 2017
By Dr Elie Al Hindy and Ramy Jabbour Since the end of the civil war, Lebanon’s delicate political/sectarian balance gave the electoral law an even more […]
April 24, 2017
The current form of Saudi Arabia as a state began with its foundation in 1932 by Abdul-Aziz Al Saud allied with the Wahhabis clan. The tribal […]
April 15, 2017
د. إيلي الهندي – مدير مركز الشرق الاوسط للدراسات والابحاث الاستراتيجية meirss.org تتخبط الأحزاب في لبنان منذ أكثر من عقد في محاولة إيجاد قانون انتخابي جديد […]
April 10, 2017
ABSTRACT During the last decade, Turkish foreign policy exhibited a heightened interest in the Middle East thereby inaugurating a sharp departure from a long foreign policy […]
March 14, 2017
In the last three months Egypt has intensified its diplomatic rapprochement with upstream Nile African countries. It hosted heads of state from Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan […]
January 25, 2017
The ascendency of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in the early 2000’s has ushered in seismic shifts in Turkish economic, political, cultural and […]
December 9, 2016
The proclivity for conspiracy theories in the Middle East is universal. A cursory survey of any average media outlet presents a legion of examples of automatic […]
November 15, 2016
Saudi Arabia is losing ground in Lebanon to its rival Iran! A statement widely spread through the media platforms and discussed in Lebanese political circles. Starting […]
November 15, 2016
Elie Al Hindy & Jasmin Lilian Diab Background: Amidst controversy, Trump won the elections in a landslide victory over Clinton, 232 to 306 Electoral College votes, […]
November 10, 2016
The much touted Mosul operation against the Islamic State (IS) is in its third week. Composed of Iraqi government troops, Kurdish Peshmerga forces, Turkey-backed Sunni fighters, […]
November 10, 2016
Abstract: The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to capture the world’s attention. With a stickler President Hassan Rouhani as well as the international community’s evident focus […]
November 3, 2016
Lebanon has been an oasis of relative stability for the past five years even with an almost complete political deadlock, a presidential vacancy of 28 […]
October 5, 2016
استعادت خطوة الكونغرس الأمريكي بالتصويت على تمرير “قانون العدالة ضد رعاة الارهاب” المعروف ب”جاستا” وتخطّيها لڤيتو الرئيس باراك أوباما ا حول مستقبل العلاقات السعودية-الأميركية في خضم […]
October 4, 2016
On the 28th of September 2016, the Kremlin announced that preparations were under way for President Vladimir Putin to visit Turkey in October, a further sign […]
August 11, 2016
Lebanon is one of the region’s constantly unstable countries but has been able to remain relatively peaceful during this turbulent period in the Middle East’s […]
August 2, 2016
By and large, Iranian Kurds have been relatively remote from the vortex of Kurdish armed struggle for independence in spite of the fact that modern Kurdish […]
June 27, 2016
