When the network launched in 1996, it radically changed the media landscape of the Arab world. Two decades later, some regimes are still seething.
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Congress is trying to curb the president’s ties to human rights abusers, harkening back to landmark legislation of the 1970s.
An expert on Islam and democracy examines the threat to the world’s largest Muslim majority country.
The Middle East could be witnessing a foreign policy misfire of epic proportions.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE led a group of countries that have severed all ties to fellow American ally Qatar over its foreign policy. The US will play a key role in whether it accedes to their demands.
What’s so ‘brotherly’ about a major diplomatic spat?
The world’s response to two terrorist incidents in Iran was telling, and ominous.
Terrorist attacks in Iran are evidence that, in the Middle East, there are far too many moving parts for US President Donald Trump’s recent trip to have changed much on the ground.
The ongoing diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia has isolated Qatar from the rest of the Middle East while also undermining the anti-Iran alliance among the Gulf countries.
Qatar has used its wealth to adopt policies sometimes rivaling Saudi Arabia’s. Think, for example, of the popular Al-Jazeera. Now the Saudis seem determined to limit Qatari influence as much as possible.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have butted heads before, but this time seems different.
It is not clear in the wake of Trump’s visit to the Middle East is whether his public statements are part of an overarching strategy, or what might be described as a reconnaissance mission.
The visit has wider implications for the entire Middle East.
Already one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian disasters, the situation in Yemen is only getting worse.
We asked an expert on diplomacy and foreign policy.
There have been several attacks on Shia mosques in several parts of the world. At its heart is the centuries’-old sectarian Shia-Sunni divide.
For Trump, putting America first means that being a global leader on human rights may take a back seat.
Saudi Arabia’s economy is almost entirely dependent on oil. Here’s how it’s trying to change that.
Shared economic and security interests have kept Saudi Arabia and the US close over the decades despite dramatic differences in the way the two countries are governed.
To understand the complexities of the conflict in Syria and what might happen next, it helps to untangle the three layers of strife in the war-torn country.
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Fellow for the Middle East at the Baker Institute, Rice University
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Affiliate Researcher, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Bayreuth University
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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PhD Candidate, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Lecturer in International Relations, University of Glasgow
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Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Colorado State University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Research Associate, King's College London, King's College London
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Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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Professor of International Relations & Global Studies, Michigan State University