Tag: MPC Journal

On 10 January 2021, Turkish Ministry of Defence released a video saying that the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) had carried out a total of 43 operations during December 2020, including…

The 2022 Qatar World Cup may be sparking social change in the Gulf, just not (yet) in Qatar. Qatar’s winning of the hosting rights for the World Cup gave human…

  Here is an important party in Syria that we do not here much about: “I don’t know exactly, but everything seems more beautiful after the snowfall… as if the…

It is more often that we hear questions such as why do people comply with authoritarian exploitation? Why don’t they rebel, reform or change the status quo? Don’t they like…

In recent months, there have been a plethora of stories emerging from Egypt, in which women’s clothing and bodies have been policed. Women have been arrested, barred and publicly condemned…

Who Says Popular Quest for Change in the Middle East Has Been Quelled?‏ A series of recent mass protests in several Arab countries have called into question suggestions that civil…

In March 2011 a few teenagers in a southern Syrian city – fired up no doubt by the revolutionary fervour sweeping the Middle East at the time – daubed some…

Hamas’s fortunes have taken a turn for the worse. The de facto government of the Gaza strip suddenly finds itself in difficulties on four fronts: deteriorating external relations, including financial…

This summer, as the British parliament take its annual break from business, civil servants are hard at work preparing an unprecedented assault on Islamist extremism. The UK’s Counter-Extremism Strategy, to…

For nearly fifty years the accepted mantra has been that only direct face-to-face negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians can yield a mutually acceptable settlement. That formula has been tested…