Middle East

Lebanon’s Governance Crisis: What Lies Ahead for the Future?

By JHANVI MEHTA Lebanese politics has been marred with dysfunction and corruption in recent years. This raises the question of if Lebanon...

by ARTHUR KLEINMAN Following decades of borderline compulsive meddling in the politics of the Middle East, a series of foreign policy...

By LILY MECKEL War in Yemen has ravaged the country since 2014. What was initially a fight between the Houthi movement, with support from...

By ARTHUR KLEINMAN Last July, I published an article on this site arguing that it was too early to bet against Israel's ever...

As featured in Edition 37, available here. By OPHELIA MERALI Women’s rights in the Middle East are embedded in a rich history of...

As featured in Edition 37, available here. By REMI TROVO In order to modernise the country and diversify its economy, the Saudi Arabian...

by JOE HILL The Rectorate Building at Boğaziçi University Throughout January, peaceful protests, advocating academic freedom, were...

Written by Ali Al-Enazi Tahrir Square, Cairo was the centre of the Egyptian Arab Spring Revolution. What occurred 10 years ago in the...

By ARTHUR KLEINMAN How does one define a nominally clandestine activity principally designed to illustrate beyond doubt the culpability...

BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN For the Middle East, the current moment is a foreboding one. With a number Arab states riven by conflict – in most...