Hakim Khatib Archives | Middle East Politics & Culture Journal

8 September 20150621 Hakim Khatib

Why People Comply with Authoritarian Exploitation in the Middle East

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 s

8 September 20150753 James M. Dorsey

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 q

3 September 20150574 Neville Teller

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 – daube

25 August 20150466 Neville Teller

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: det

25 August 20151684 Hakim Khatib

Using religious frameworks in political contestation and mobilisation processes has become more eminent in recent decades spiralling an intricate

3 August 20150705 Neville Teller

For nearly fifty years the accepted mantra has been that only direct face-to-face negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians can yield a mutual

23 July 20150531 Hakim Khatib

Terrorism has torn Egypt’s Sinai since 2011 and turned it into a military operations area. But what if Egypt’s cardinal problem is not Sinai’s terror

26 June 20150583 Rick Francona

The so-called Islamic State, more commonly called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has suffered few military setbacks. The one that the

19 June 20151549 James M. Dorsey

The US and Arab military strategies across the Middle East and North Africa have failed to reverse the rise of often retrograde rebel forces in Iraq,

8 June 20150522 MPC Journal Team

"When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defence rushes in. In a place where public services no longer function these unarmed volunteers risk the