The Iran war is affecting the whole Middle East. An expert on the region looks at four key issues that shed light on the war’s likely end and political consequences.
- Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
The region’s authoritarian leaders have been buoyed by the loss of Iranian power. But such victories mask a region that is still very much beset by danger.
The Trump administration’s crusade against antisemitism looks to be mainly about crippling elite universities and blurring the lines between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism.
Israel’s highest court has struck down the government’s law limiting its power. Three scholars look at why the law was proposed, what it aimed to do and who supported – and opposed – it.
The first of two episodes of The Conversation Weekly podcast exploring how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life at universities.
A scholar of the Mideast at a large public university says that caring and a commitment to free speech have been central to his campus’s response to students upset and angry over the Israel-Hamas war.
Benyamin Nétanyahou a contribué à remodeler profondément Israël et son rapport au reste du monde. Avec un virage à droite nationaliste.
Benjamin Netanyahu has helped reshape Israel and the broader world in profound ways. And there’s a dark side to those changes.
Migrant workers’ rights are indeed an ongoing issue in Qatar – but the country has passed reforms to improve workers’ rights, and it isn’t the only issue to define Qatar.
Nothing seems to have brought a lasting peace to Palestinians and Israelis. Two Middle East scholars suggest approaches different from what has been tried before.
After 12 years in power, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s influence will last long beyond his time in office.
A social scientist argues that in the absence of strong government action, people took it upon themselves to work out conduct to stem the spread of virus.
Apakah pembunuhan yang dilakukan AS terhadap jenderal Iran melanggar hukum internasional? Bagaimana dengan serangan Iran terhadap pangkalan militer AS di Irak?
The US and other countries set up the modern system of international law after World War II. Does the US killing of an Iranian general violate those laws? What about Iran’s attack on US bases in Iraq?
With the opening of a synagogue in Dubai and warmer relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, some Arab states suddenly appear to be more open to friendship with Israel and Jews. Why?
The longtime prime minister has reshaped Israel in profound ways. The military is stronger but Palestinian suffering has grown.
The Trump administration’s abandonment of support for democracy and civil rights abroad may be behind the sort of attacks on individual freedom that likely claimed journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s life.
With the Trump Administration’s abandonment of support for democracy and civil rights abroad, Middle Easterners may well believe that the U.S. cares little for their well-being and their very lives.
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
The Trump administration may believe they have the key to an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement – when others have failed. But it ignores how Israelis and Palestinians feel about such an agreement.
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
Qatar has used its wealth to adopt policies sometimes rivaling Saudi Arabia’s. Think, for example, of the popular Al-Jazeera. Now the Saudis seem determined to limit Qatari influence as much as possible.
Was this a one-off intervention – or a sign that Trump will undertake more of an effort to undermine the Assad regime?
Could the president-elect and his secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson adopt useful policies in the Middle East? A scholar sees some hopeful possibilities.
On February 11 a Syrian ceasefire was signed in Munich. Few are optimistic it will hold. Why? Because, argues one Middle Eastern scholar, world leaders are ignoring key realities.
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