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Category Archives: Middle East
Oct 21 2013
Hizbullah: the quagmire of Syria
Leave a commentBy Dr Dina Matar, Director, Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS. Syria’s agreement last month to disclose and destroy its chemical weapons and the subsequent easing of tensions between the US and Iran raise a crucial question about … Continue reading
Posted by: October 21, 2013
Sep 6 2013
Might Assad Want US Intervention in Syria?
2 CommentsBy Dr Nicholas Kitchen, Research Officer in Global Power and the Gulf and Editor in Chief of LSE IDEAS. “We don’t know exactly why it happened,” a US intelligence official told Foreign Policy. “We just know it was … Continue reading
Posted by: September 6, 2013
Aug 7 2013
The Shia and the Battle for Survival
1 CommentBy Ranj Alaaldin, PhD Candidate at the LSE. This piece originally appeared in RUSI Analysis on 30 July 2013 It could be argued that for the Shia of Iraq – who have consolidated power after decades, if not centuries … Continue reading
Posted by: August 7, 2013