Analysis
The Impact of the 1925 Uprising in Syria: Elites, Mobilization, and Social…
The Sheikh Said uprising and the Azadi (freedom) Society represented the greatest challenge faced by the young Turkish republic after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924 and the severing of the last remaining…
Geopolitics
Post-Assad Syria: Alliances, projects…. and Islam
Most Syrians were surprised by the geopolitical significance of their country when the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime led to the demise of Iran’s regional axis, a fate not shared by Tehran’s forces in Gaza and…
History & Culture
Iran and the region… the direction of expansion westward
With the founding of the Achaemenid Empire by Cyrus in 550 BC, a triangle of power in the region was broken, which for nearly two millennia consisted of the Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, and the Anatolian Plateau.…
Gender
Pakhshan Azizi’s Prison Letter: Concealment & Unconcealment of Truth
With coverage of the Jin, Jiyan, Azadî (Women, Life, Freedom) Revolution and Jîna Amini’s murder fading from the Western press, many have forgotten that the Iranian regime continues to kidnap and execute women who…
