Conflicts Forum

By Dr Ansiah Khaz Ali

The fourth in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.

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By Dr Islah Jad

The third in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.

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Alastair Crooke
Article first published on Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, June 2010

The additional sanctions which the Security Council imposed on Iran earlier this month, and the additional sanctions which the United States Congress passed last Thursday, make no sense in terms of policy coherence. No one really believes sanctions will force a change in Iranian policy; nor will they improve the chances of renewing real negotiations. The dismissive brushing aside of the results of those who had been successful in engaging Iran, such as Turkey and Brazil, leaves little on which to build. On the contrary, it leaves a residue of bitterness and mistrust on all sides. Continue reading… »

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Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Washington Quarterly, June 2010

In his commendably candid interview with Time in January 2010, President Barack Obama noted that managing politics in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict “is just really hard.” The president, however, might well have been speaking about the Middle East as a whole. It is not just the Israeli-Palestinian track that has been difficult, so too have the Iranian and Syrian tracks, where engagement has not taken traction. Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria—nothing has been exactly easy for US policymakers this past year. To be fair to the president, he has taken office at a time when the whole region is journeying into a new era. In a sense, the president is facing the consequences of three key events that took place in the region more than 20 years ago. Continue reading… »

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The second in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.

Follow this link to download the second Monograph, ‘A Study on Women in Islam: An Islamic Vision of Women From the Viewpoint of Contemporary Shi’i Scholars in Lebanon’.

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Alastair Crooke
Article first published on The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times

June 3, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
“This is language that we have not heard since the time of Gamal Abdul Nasser.” Thus wrote the influential chief editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fiery response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza flotilla – adding that such “manly” positions and rhetoric had “disappeared from the dictionaries of our Arab leaders (since the demise of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser).” He lamented that “Arab regimes now represent the only friends left to Israel.” Continue reading… »

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