Middle East & North Africa

Tensions have been rising following the discovery of energy resources in the Eastern Mediterranean. The announcement by Exxon Mobil in early 2019 that…

Since achieving its independence after the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has maintained warm relations with the United States. The country regards the United States both as a potential…

Iran is currently facing an incredibly unlucky alignment of pressure sources that are interrelated and will force the regime to engage in risky or experimental behavior, most likely in 2020.

The discovery of natural gas fields in Israel’s Eastern Mediterranean offshore areas has moderated the country’s total dependence on energy imports. Israel crude oil production is miniscule and there are…

Gay rights in the West have been publicly debated since at least the late 1970s. In much of the rest of the world, however, same-sex relations, and specifically male-to-male intercourse,…

Although the start of the new decade will be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic, another important yet overlooked story from the first months of 2020 was the high-intensity warfare between…

Since Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar initiated his effort to take Libya’s capital, Tripoli, by force on April 4, 2019, Libya has remained in a state of full-on civil war.

A photo that surfaced from January’s Berlin Conference on Libya shows an intense discussion between prominent heads of state—among them Angela Merkel, Emmanuel…

Recent media reports on the Persian Gulf focus on the feuds between ruling families: the Al-Thani of Qatar, the Khalifa of Bahrain, and the Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia. While these…

Recent discussions on the Turkish state’s actions, which have devastated Kurdish people within and outside of its borders, suffer from a familiar deficiency: they neglect the historical and cultural foundations…