Israel needs to decide, once and for all: is this an occupation or not?
A recurrent challenge in controversies over boycotting Israeli policy is consistency. But what is problematically inconsistent is not the singling out of Israel, but the charge of inconsistency itself.
Rather than being 'neutral', Palestinians in Syria find themselves caught in a deadly grip between Assad's regime on the one hand and extremist groups on the other.
A host of factors and failures have combined to outweigh Ennahda's successes in the transitional period, seeing its popularity shrink since its electoral victory in 2011.
With its stance on Kobane, Ankara is in danger of undoing advances in the Kurdish peace process. It must act boldly now to set things back on course.
This debate hopes to recreate a historical moment for civil society participation and action, by arriving at a more articulate understanding of the nature of the conflict that enables us to suggest practical solutions.
The Middle East's political map survived decades of tumult. Its long-term unravelling began with Iran's uprising in 1979.
The US wants Turkey to join the military effort against Islamic State at Kurdish-dominated Kobane, across the Syrian border—but Ankara’s focus is the Kurds within its own.
The strength of the new jihadi movement is to link ideology and combat experience. The failures of its western enemy add fuel to its cause.
The fight for Kobane is not limited to a local struggle against IS militants, but reverberates politically and strategically across the region.
The world is finally paying attention to the plight of Syrian and Iraqi Kurds, Christians and Yezidis. Hopefully this will shed a light on the repression of many of the region's other minorities.
