A look at Donald Trump’s 'travel bans' with an eye to the harvesting of personal data, and the EU-US Privacy Shield, now on life support.
Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first post-revolutionary president, discusses neo-liberalism, the crisis in western democracies, and the relationship between Islamic terrorism and the rise of far-right politics.
General Mattis, now shaping Washington’s Iran policy, asked by President Obama what he thought were the top three threats, replied “Number one: Iran. Number two: Iran. Number three: Iran.”
The third annual meeting of the Syrian Civil Coalition was held in Beirut on January 27-30 2017. Could a new understanding have come too late?
In the chaos and instability the region is experiencing, now more than ever, religious and racial minorities find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
Iranian civil society activists Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Ebrahimi-Iraee are victims of the regime's emboldened judiciary.
During the last days of December, Russia will host a round of diplomatic talks with Iran and Turkey.
The lesson Arab autocrats are likely to learn from Syria is simple: under the current international climate the use of severe repression is effective.
Táhirih – an important figure in Persian history – helps us imagine a more diverse feminism and a more progressive Middle East. Her legacy is not limited to Bahá’ís but belongs to all of us.
An interview with A.H. Banisadr, Iran’s former president, about the aftermath of the coup in Turkey.
The question before Masoud Barzani is what to do in order to turn state-building rhetoric into a future Kurdish state.
Modern day Islamism represents the interests of a specific social class that has few qualms about current social and economic structures.
