Interventions

Our Fellows have produced a large number of articles over the past few months and here are some highlights.

Simon Mabon

‘Afterword: sectarianisation beyond the Middle East’, Religion, State and Soc...

For the first time since I was seven years old I felt again this sense of shared Palestinian identity. On the 18th of May 2021, Palestinians –- regardless of their attributed status as given to them by Israel – i.e. the West Bank, the Gaza Str...

This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.

Revolutions are not predictable events. They do not follow a formula, nor a linear process in which anger culminates into a large scale uprisin...

This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.

The Iraqi government faces substantial economic, political and security related challenges which intersect with Iraq’s complex relations to i...

This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.

As an aspiring strong middle power in the Persian Gulf region, Iran is faced with three alternatives to face the international challenges that impa...

This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.

The late Fred Halliday, Professor of the International Relations of the Middle East at the LSE, remarked in 2005 that, “Everyone can remember one or two,...

This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050

Power-sharing has become a key instrument of constitutional designers to cease violent conflict. Beginning with Lebanon’s Ta’if Agreement in 198...

This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.

Despite the triumphalism of former US President Donald Trump and former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, ISIS has not been comprehensively defeated in...

This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050.

Drugs in the MENA: an unexplored force shaping anger, divisions and discontent

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...