james l. gelvin – the conversation

A specialist in the modern social and cultural history of the Arab East, he is author of five books: The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, October 2017); The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2012, 2015); The..

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TEHRAN - The US warned European Union that the defence plans jeopardise integration of military industries and cooperation within the framework of NATO, citing letter of US Undersecretary of Defence for Acquisitions Ellen Lord to EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini... TEHRAN - The..

islamic political activists take a cue from israel

''As the world became more and more unipolar and the Soviet Union collapsed, people (in this region) started asking for more participation in their own affairs,'' says writer Fahmy Howeidi, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism. . Arab regimes reacted in one of the two ways, and neither worked..

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