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Obama Administration And Afghanistan: What Lies Ahead?

Barack Obama has recently approved guidelines allowing the Pentagon—the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense—to continue fighting the Taliban, al-Qaeda and its allied forces in Afghanistan alongside the A...

by Sohini Chatterjee

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More Than A Fair Share: A Jewish State For Jewish Citizens

Another national identity crisis surfaced last month, stoking the recent global wave of national struggles to carve out “true” values and recognise “true” citizens. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a n...

by Gustav Isherwood

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Nice House And Bad Foreign Policy

In this past month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has attracted the attention of headlines around the world. Not only did he make controversial remarks such as ‘women are not equal to men because it goes against the ...

by Miles Harrison

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Egypt’s Arab Spring: Not a Revolution

The past weeks may have erased in part the legacy of the hard-fought Egyptian revolution of 2011. The decision by the Egyptian judiciary to clear the former president Hosni Mubarak and members of his regime of the deaths of 846...

by Eva Uguen-Csenge

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Junior Jihadis: A New Era For Child Soldiers?

We are inundated with stories of children crossing continents to join the battle and to help to establish a caliphate.

by Flo Carson

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Beirut’s Road Block To Sustainability

A highway construction project put on the back-burner for more than thirty years is to be implemented if Beirut’s municipality gets its way. The decision to use a proposal to alleviate traffic in the congested Beirut neighbor...

by Meryl Haddad

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Seeding Lebanon’s Start-up Sector

In a region where the Arab Spring took off partly due to the high rates of youth unemployment, job creation is arguably one of the main concerns for governments and the private sector alike.

by Meryl Haddad

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Egypt’s Landmark FGM Trial Ends In ‘Not Guilty’

The first court case of female genital mutilation in Egypt has ended in the acquittal of doctor and Islamic preacher Raslan Fadl. Contrary to the hopes of activists and state officials for a landmark verdict, the doctor was r...

by Heenali Patel

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Iran’s New Age

24 November 2014 marks the day on which the 12-year impasse regarding trade sanctions imposed to restrain Iran’s nuclear programme is to end. In 2002, the country’s opposition group revealed secret government activity inclu...

by Siobhan Fraile Ordonez

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Obama Administration And Afghanistan: What Lies Ahead?

More Than A Fair Share: A Jewish State For Jewish Citizens

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Nice House And Bad Foreign Policy

Egypt’s Arab Spring: Not a Revolution

Junior Jihadis: A New Era For Child Soldiers?

Beirut’s Road Block To Sustainability

Seeding Lebanon’s Start-up Sector

Egypt’s Landmark FGM Trial Ends In ‘Not Guilty’

Iran’s New Age

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