"Arab Idol": A Palestinian Victory, At Last
Ronni Shaked and Itamar Radai explain the context and significance of the Palestinian participation in the fourth season of the Arab Idol competition, whose winner was Bethlehem native Yacoub Shahin.
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Beyond Turkey’s Referendum: Prospects on Shifting Post-Referendum Alliances
Ceng Sagnic discusses the potential for shifting political alliances in post-referendum Turkey
An Even More Troubled Alliance: Turkish-American Problems in Contemporary Perspective
Guest contributor Nick Danforth, of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C., analyzes the future of US-Turkey relations after the April 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey.
A Critical Survey of Textbooks on the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Working Paper No.1 critically examines the textbooks commonly used to teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in university classrooms.
Summit or siesta?
Senior Research Fellow Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman argues that the 2017 Arab League Summit held in Jordan contained little substantive content, but nevertheless served as an indicator of current political dynamics.
מבט על חיי מהגרים במזרח התיכון
.יואל פרקר חוקר את חיי מהגרים במזרח התיכון
Year of the Egyptian Woman
Michael Barak analyzes the campaign on Egyptian social media to improve their status.
Iranian SNS users protest forced hijab to mark International Women’s Day
Raz Zimmt analyzes the campaign on Iranian social media to eliminate the legal requirement for women to wear the hijab in Iran.
Turkey vs. Holland: Turkish foreign policy at the service of domestic policy
Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak investigates the nationalistic discourse surrounding the recent diplomatic incident between Turkey and Holland, and the extent to which it has contributed to increased support for Erdoğan, shortly before the decisive referendum on changing Turkey's system of governance.
Changing Dynamics in the Syrian Crisis
Alexey Khlebnikov analyzes how the Syrian conflict has been altered in recent months. The 2016 Syrian ceasefire and the subsequent talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, which renewed the political track, created a new reality, one in which the U.S. and the EU now have taken a back seat to Russia, Turkey, and Iran.