Here’s what the protests in Lebanon and Iraq are really about Bassel Salloukh - October 19, 2019 People are uniting in their demands for change.
A plague of Twitter bots is roiling the Middle East Marc Jones and Alexei Abrahams - June 5, 2018 [caption id="attachment_74110" align="aligncenter" width="960"] WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger icons on
Survey research in the Middle East needs to be transparent. Here’s why. David Pollock - November 16, 2017 [caption id="attachment_66326" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A Qatari woman walks in front
Here’s what old constitutional debates tell us about the new crisis in Iraqi Kurdistan Al Ali - October 30, 2017 [caption id="attachment_65511" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Smoke rises while Iraqi security forces
How to break the Middle East’s sectarian spiral Bassel Salloukh - August 8, 2016 [caption id="attachment_45005" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Lebanese antigovernment activists march from Bourj
Why fear explains the failure of Egypt’s revolution Jakob Wichmann, Gamal Soltan, and Ellen Lust - January 25, 2016 [caption id="attachment_34738" align="aligncenter" width="908"] An Egyptian protester throws back a
Does Twitter bridge the Sunni-Shiite divide or make it worse? Alexandra A. Siegel - January 7, 2016 [caption id="attachment_34173" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Iranian protesters set fire to the
Abu Aardvark’s 2015 Middle East Book Awards Marc Lynch - December 31, 2015 [caption id="attachment_34047" align="aligncenter" width="908"] (iStock)[/caption] The aftermath of the Arab
What exactly was the Islamic State targeting in its Paris attacks? Laurent Bonnefoy - November 24, 2015 [caption id="attachment_32593" align="aligncenter" width="908"] A woman is evacuated from the
Here’s what we can learn from how Twitter responded to Paris Alexandra A. Siegel - November 16, 2015 [caption id="attachment_32319" align="aligncenter" width="908"] French soldiers enforce the Vigipirate plan,