by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 18, 2015 | Opinion
The recent act of terrorism in Paris has confirmed one, definite thing; the necessity for intervention in Syria and putting an end to this chaos, the dangers of which have reached beyond the Middle East. In Vienna, instead of solving the crisis with intervention, the...
by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Jun 2, 2013 | Opinion
This war is unlike other Arab wars; it is a war between the major symbols of different identities, or at least that is how this conflict is being framed. Our past, and our discourse, is sectarian. Last Monday, the editor-in-chief of the Al-Safeer newspaper, well-known...
by Abdullah Al-Otaibi | May 30, 2013 | Opinion
It is the fate of Syria and its people to be the crossing point between regional and international wars. Syria is the place where these wars and the interests of those fighting them meet, at the expense of the Syrian people, their future and their state. This is all...
by Soner Cagaptay | May 26, 2013 | Debate
Soon after the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002, Turkey launched an ambitious foreign policy agenda to make itself a stand-alone regional leader. With this new vision, Turkey looked to cast itself as a central actor, wielding soft power to shape...
by Ahmed Lashin | May 26, 2013 | Debate
Despite the fact that the relationship between the two countries has recently become more complicated and ambiguous, the Turkish-Iranian—or if you prefer, the Ottoman-Safavid—struggle is well-rooted in history. Conflicts of interests between the two countries may have...
