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Paradoxes of Egyptian-Saudi relations
During the 1960s, Egypt and Saudi Arabia fought an eight-year proxy war in Yemen so fierce that Egypt repeatedly deployed chemical weapons against its Saudi-backed...
12-Oct-2009
Solving Russia's Tatar-Bashkir conundrum
A large majority of Russians believe the Kremlin should loosen its control over regional governments according to an opinion poll conducted in mid-June 2009 by...
24-Sep-2009
Iran and Russia face times of trouble
Speculation about a significant increase in Russo-Iranian defence co-operation heightened in late July when the Iranian Mehr News Agency announced that the two countries would...
10-Sep-2009
Al-Qaeda brings Leaderless Jihad to book
A group claiming to speak for Al-Qaeda publishes an Arabic language magazine called The Vanguard of Khorasan . The June issue (volume 14) containing ...
27-Aug-2009
Muslim majority has Bosnia in the balance
A leadership challenge has forced members of the main Bosniak (ethnic Bosnian Muslim) party, the Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije: SDA), at its...
21-Aug-2009
Al-Qaeda's administration of savagery
On 8 April 2009, Arab media reported that Saudi security forces had arrested 11 men in the southern part of the kingdom. The men were...
23-Jul-2009
The concept of 'Ribat' in jihadist mindset
To translate and interpret the Arabic term ribat can be contentious. The term is frequently referred to in both jihadist videos and in print literature...
21-Jul-2009
Chechen president turns to nation building
While Moscow formally announced the end of its 'counter-terrorist operation' in Chechnya on 16 April, it is clear that the fighting is far from over....
17-Jun-2009
Algeria and France: the quiet Salafists
Salafism (salafiyya) is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary Islam. Its name derives from al-salaf al-sālih ('the pious predecessors') and stems from the ...
01-May-2009
Iran's gas swells economic frustration
Located in Central Eurasia, its southern shore bounded by the Persian Gulf, the northern shore by the Caspian Sea, Iran covers a region that is...
27-Apr-2009
Securing a stable future for Ingushetia
To mark his first 100 days in office, Ingushetian President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov gave interviews to Russian media in which he blamed his predecessor for bequeathing...
09-Apr-2009
Iran's influence heightens Cairo concerns
"Iran threatens us with terrorism" announced a headline in Al-Gomhuria , a high-circulation Egyptian government newspaper on 5 March. The article criticised Iran's Deputy ...
16-Mar-2009
Bin Laden's history with Palestine
Global jihadists have always had a deeply ambivalent attitude to Palestine. Their spiritual leader, Abdullah Azzam, was himself a West Bank-born Palestinian who fled to...
10-Mar-2009
Shifting populations
In assessing the most important factors shaping international affairs over the next two decades, the authors of the United States National Intelligence Council's November 2008...
30-Jan-2009
Gulen movement: Turkey's third power
Turkey's Fethullah Gulen Community (FGC), also known as the Gulen movement after its founder and leader Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim preacher, often escapes scholarly...
29-Jan-2009
Turkey's waning appetite for Europe
When the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP) government took power in Turkey and vowed to pursue EU accession in 2002, there...
09-Jan-2009
Kadyrov's Islam creates Chechen autocracy
On 17 October, the new Akhmad Kadyrov 'Heart of Chechnya' Mosque was opened in the Chechen capital, Grozny. A massive exercise in political spectacle as...
18-Dec-2008
Doomsday books fuel militant fervour
Islam has a long history of revolutionary movements, with strong messianic dimensions. Hundreds of Mahdis appeared along the centuries and each one pretended to provide...
08-Dec-2008
Turkey's soft-power options and the Kurds
In late February, the Turkish Armed Forces initiated Operation Sun, an eight-day military offensive targeting the operational bases of the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (Partiya...
12-Sep-2008
UK's Muslim Brotherhood facing storm
In recent months, British individuals and groups representing the Muslim Brotherhood have launched a series of events and initiatives that aim to appeal to non-Muslims...
29-Aug-2008
Russian Muslims wrestle with nationalism
Russian nationalism is on the rise, bringing with it new pressures on Russia's growing Muslim population. Muslim ethnic groups within Russia account for, as of...
02-May-2008
Senegal and the Islamic summit
President Abdoulaye Wade hosted the Organisation of the Islamic Conference's 11th Ordinary Summit in Dakar on 13-14 March, the culmination of four years of Senegalese...
27-Mar-2008
Turkish pioneers redefine Islamic laws
Throughout much of Islamic history, the Prophet Muhammad's collective sayings, which are thousands of oral narrations collected in writing long after his death, have been...
26-Mar-2008
Foreign Islamists target vulnerable Macedonia minorities
Although under-reported, the phenomenon of radicalisation in Macedonia's minority Muslim populations is being closely observed by Macedonia's counter-intelligence services and their Western partners. Macedonian authorities...
18-Mar-2008
Islamic television's meteoric rise
It has always been the cartoonish animals that received the media attention. Since its launch to satellite in April 2007, the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa television ...
14-Mar-2008
Russia's army faces 'Islamisation'
The Russian army is regarded by President Vladimir Putin as both symbol and guarantor of Russian nationhood, but a combination of a demographic shift away ...
11-Feb-2008
More of the same in Morocco's elections
Morocco is something of an exception in Arab politics. With a 12-century tradition of self-rule, it is an inward-looking country concerned far more with its...
04-Oct-2007
Politics and film in the Middle East
Film is an often overlooked area in the study of mediated representations of politics in the Middle East. Much attention has been given to the...
24-Sep-2007
*Radicalising Russia's Caucasian Muslims
Violence is increasing again in the Russian North Caucasus as a variety of terrorist and militant groups and an equally heterogeneous collection of local and...
31-Aug-2007
An Islamic nuclear arms race?
Despite years of negotiations and US sanctions, successive reformist and hardline Iranian governments continue to develop the domestic capacity to manufacture nuclear fuel through uranium...
21-Aug-2007
Suicide bombings in Afghanistan
One of the most alarming developments in the global war on terrorism has been the transfer of fedayeen (suicide) bombing tactics to the Afghan theatre...
13-Aug-2007
Iran's brain drain and lost generation
She drove a black Patrol Jeep, lived in North Tehran's exclusive Farmanieh district and held parties for her wealthy friends in a family house in...
06-Aug-2007
*The future of the Golan Heights
For the first time in years, returning the Golan Heights to Syria is a live issue in Israel, but if peace moves founder, experts ...
12-Jul-2007
US-Arab intelligence co-operation
Liaison between US intelligence agencies and Middle Eastern services has undergone a dramatic transformation since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US. Co-operation ...
20-Jun-2007
Science in Islamic societies
Although science flourished during Islam's Golden Age (850CE to 1250CE), the current level of scientific research in the Muslim world is very low. Competing ...
21-Feb-2007
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