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.
Follow this link to download the fourth Monograph.
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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]