Category: Analysis
Understanding the key Indigenous groups in the MENA region
There are currently more than 5,000 different Indigenous groups around the world, according to Amnesty International. Indigenous peoples make up some 6.2% of the global [more…]
Syria at a crossroads: Hope, conflict and change
Syria is undoubtedly at a crossroads. For months, images of the country’s people celebrating the end of the civil war that tore their lives apart [more…]
Captagon: The drug that accelerated conflict in Syria
Authorities in Syria on May 19th, declared that they had stopped an attempt to smuggle four million tablets of the drug, Captagon, out of the [more…]
The Syrian Alawites who never supported Assad’s regime
For years, stories from Syria’s Alawites, most of them ordinary citizens and families caught on both sides of the Syrian Civil War, have gone unreported [more…]
Unravelling the fragile state of Yemen
For years now, Yemen has endured one of the world’s most gruelling and overlooked humanitarian crises. Only in recent times, since the October 7th 2023 [more…]
Sheikh Osama al-Rifai reappointed as Syria’s Grand Mufti
Sheikh Osama al-Rifai has been officially appointed as Grand Mufti of Syria, the country’s highest religious authority, after interim president Ahmad al-Shaara reinstated the position, [more…]
Israel: Forces kill two and country blocks aid entry into Gaza
An Israeli drone strike has killed two Palestinians in Central Rafah, in the Southern Gaza strip, The New Arab reported on March 3th. The military [more…]
The Assads of Syria: Part 1 — struggle, intrigue and defiance
The name Assad was inextricably linked with Syria’s fortunes since 1970, when Hafez al-Assad (above), while Syrian defence minister, came to power on the back [more…]
Israel’s economy in peril as military spending soars
As Israel’s military spending soars amidst its deadly war in Gaza, analysts warn it risks harming its own economy and worsening existing structural problems – [more…]
John Wight: Can Hezbollah defeat Israel again in 2023?
Tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon in the wake of Hamas’s incursion into southern Israel of 7th October have escalated into clashes between [more…]
