In less than a year, the country once seen as a diplomatic pariah, strangled by sanctions and numbed by fifty years of the Assad’s dynasty’s dictatorship, reinvented itself as the “Eden of capital.” ...

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“Climate point 1” is one of the most important scientific concepts regarding global and regional climate change and serves as a basic indicator for the direction climate change will take in the near- ...

This article is part of a multi-part series on Arab Gulf security. Without periodic British or US interventions over the last 300 years, the contemporary map of the Arabian Gulf would undoubtedly be ...

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa lack any legislative framework to allow legal gender recognition (LGR) for their transgender populations. This legislative vacuum has forced transgender ...

This article is part of a multi-part series on Arab Gulf security. The Sultanate of Oman is a Gulf state, an Indian Ocean state, and a critical Arabian Peninsula state that occupies the most vital ...

No ruling dynasty in the Arab Gulf has played a seemingly weak hand with more skill than Doha. In 1968, when the British announced their intention to withdraw from the Gulf, some Western experts ...

Russia is emerging as an important and unexpected mediator in the ongoing war in Yemen, epitomising its resurgence in the Middle East. Yemen plays a crucial role in Moscow’s collective security plan, ...

The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014 led to the extremist group controlling almost 50,000 square miles of territory and ruling over between 8 and 10 million people.[i] ...

Manara’s third issue of 2022, “Rapprochement and Realignment in the Middle East,” considers how a diplomatic deluge is reshaping regional politics in real time. Old rivalries between Sunni and Shia ...

For Iraq’s ethnic and religious minorities to enjoy equal political rights and participate in decision-making, an important place to start is to address their sense of political marginalisation.