The third annual meeting of the Syrian Civil Coalition was held in Beirut on January 27-30 2017. Could a new understanding have come too late?
In the chaos and instability the region is experiencing, now more than ever, religious and racial minorities find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
Iranian civil society activists Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Ebrahimi-Iraee are victims of the regime's emboldened judiciary.
During the last days of December, Russia will host a round of diplomatic talks with Iran and Turkey.
The lesson Arab autocrats are likely to learn from Syria is simple: under the current international climate the use of severe repression is effective.
Táhirih – an important figure in Persian history – helps us imagine a more diverse feminism and a more progressive Middle East. Her legacy is not limited to Bahá’ís but belongs to all of us.
An interview with A.H. Banisadr, Iran’s former president, about the aftermath of the coup in Turkey.
The question before Masoud Barzani is what to do in order to turn state-building rhetoric into a future Kurdish state.
Modern day Islamism represents the interests of a specific social class that has few qualms about current social and economic structures.
We can fundamentally transform our understanding of the Iranian revolution by letting the untold stories to be told.
The problem was the Guardian Council, a body which has veto authority over any legislature, which in this case rejected all 33 bills introduced by women deputies.
As Frantz Fanon once argued, for colonial powers the most effective way to control a colonized people is to humiliate them. Reformist discourse in Iran functions in the same way.
