[escenic_image id="556216"]On July 5 violence broke out in the Western Xinjiang Autonomous Region, a province in the West of China. Over the next few days over 180 people were killed in clashes…

Three years have passed since the beginning of the so-called movement of the southern districts of South Yemen. But despite the fact that many may be certain that the motivation behind such a motion…

[escenic_image id="553728"]The motives that lie behind the demonstrations, confrontations and strikes which the southern governorates have lately witnessed are uncertain. Analyses of such events are…

[escenic_image id="554833"]Head of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc, Dr. Mohamed Saad Al- Katatini, looks at the Egyptian State Security Department hits that have recently targeted some of…

[escenic_image id="554835"]After the end the Cold War and in the early 1990s, Western misunderstanding of Russia’s political culture placed high hopes of a democratic Russia more open to Western…

[escenic_image id="554897"]Exactly 30 years after its creation, the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an unprecedented existential crisis.  Its population is sharply divided – and the divisions reach to…

[escenic_image id="556218"]Democracy is not a thing of beauty.  It is messy, loud, and chaotic.  It is always and everywhere imperfect and incomplete.  As the elections on June 7 showed, Lebanon’s…

[escenic_image id="554915"]The Lebanese parliamentary elections ended more than a month ago, and today the Lebanese people are going through another tough experience while trying to form the…

[escenic_image id="556235"]The Middle East quagmire is so riddled in encrypted messages that it’s time to call things by their real name. Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not offer a…

[escenic_image id="554933"] A Window of Opportunity Despite the Disappointment, There is Hope Safa Haeri – Iranian-born career journalist living in France. Creator of Iran Press Service, he…