It is a difficult task to explain everything about the Middle East in a short article. So what I am going to do is to present an important, yet somet
Read MoreWinds of Regional Schism In mapping the Sunni-Shiite conflict we should differentiate between the Sunni-Shiite intra-state and inter-state conflicts.
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Read MoreIn 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
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