Call for Submissions – Special Issue: Iran and Its Neighbors, Post-Arab Uprising

Muftah Editors | 20 Jun 2012

Muftah.org, a digital foreign policy magazine on the Middle East and North Africa, and InsideIRAN.org, a journal of analysis and research written primarily by scholars and activists who recently left Iran, will co-produce a Special Issue on Iran’s role in the Middle East and North Africa since the start of the Arab uprisings. In 2011, an unprecedented wave... 

The Islamist “Mission Impossible” in Kuwait

Mona Kareem* | 14 Mar 2012

  A Kuwaiti man casts his ballot at a polling booth in Kuwait City, on Feb. 2, 2012. After its success in removing the former Prime Minister Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, the newly elected Islamist/conservative majority in the Kuwaiti parliament is waging new battles. Over the past two years, Kuwaitis had taken to the streets to demand Al-Mohammed’s resignation.... 

Syria: Stop Shelling Residential Areas

Muftah Editors | 9 Feb 2012

In the words of a piece in today’s issue of the Guardian, the conflict in Syria is transforming into a battle to the death. On the fifth day of some of the worst violence seen in the country over the last several months, the Syrian military laid seige to residential areas, leaving inhabitants with no means of escape. The following Human Rights Watch Report... 

More Bumps in Yemen’s Transition

Saleem Haddad | 17 Jan 2012

This morning, Yemen’s Foreign Minister warned that the planned February 21st presidential election may have to be delayed for security reasons. The major reason for this proposed delay is the news that, over the weekend, militant Islamists seized the town of Rida, 100 miles south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa’a. “If we don’t deal with the security...