For much of the past two decades, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was barred from filmmaking by his government. But even when he was put under house…

When Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed the country’s highest honour on Sergei Lavrov, Moscow’s long-serving foreign minister, earlier this…

For over 60 years, Syria’s Baathist regime disguised the large-scale expropriation of private property as lawful governance. From sweeping…

The Middle East and North Africa are riddled with civil and proxy wars that have broken states, devastated economies, and displaced millions. The…

Although US President Donald Trump suggested last week that a nuclear deal with Iran was “close,” that doesn’t actually seem to be the case as both…

The Middle East is going through a critical period of social and cultural transformation that will shape the region’s future. The transformations…

Libya’s national crisis—steadily deteriorating since the end of the 2020 civil war—recently slipped once again to new depths of division, danger, and…

The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 was met with widespread relief—not only among Syrians but among regional actors eager to move past its…

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once famously said, “Start small, think big.” To some extent, that sentiment applied to the agenda of the US-Russian…