Iran's IRGC-led war strategy echoes Imperial Japan, as US airstrikes, naval blockades and tensions in Hormuz reshape the ...

Strategic communication from the United States remains unidirectional and follows a top-down approach. The official social media accounts of the POTUS, Donald Trump, and the White House deliver state ...

Turkey-Israel trade was marked by persistent asymmetry, which deepened after 2014 and shaped the consequences of the 2024 embargo.

Manara Magazine’s forthcoming issue will highlight the ongoing policymaking challenges that countries most affected by climate change in the Middle East and North Africa face, as well as analyse case ...

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The Middle East is increasingly gravitating toward parallel – and potentially rival – security architectures. Rather than pursuing strategic diversification within a shared regional order, the United ...

When it was discovered that two Emirati citizens were among the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the country’s leadership was deeply concerned.[i] Affiliates of Islamist terrorist ...

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa lack any legislative framework to allow legal gender recognition (LGR) for their transgender populations. This legislative vacuum has forced transgender ...

While Sunnis account for roughly 85 percent of the Muslim population around the Islamic world, they constitute a minority in Iran where Shias make up the absolute majority of the country’s population.

This article is part of a multi-part series on Arab Gulf security. Without periodic British or US interventions over the last 300 years, the contemporary map of the Arabian Gulf would undoubtedly be ...

For Iraq, the fallout from the U.S.-Iran war is no longer limited to missiles, burning ships, or fears over the Strait of Hormuz, because it is now threatening something far more sensitive inside the ...