By Hameed Hakimi, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council The resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. and…
The 2023-2024 CIRS Annual Report gives a detailed overview of all the activities, research initiatives, publications, lectures, and events that CIRS organized throughout the year. Highlights include the launch of…
The 2022-2023 CIRS Annual Report contains information about all the activities, research initiatives, publications, lectures, and events that CIRS organized throughout the year. Highlights include the publication of newly published…
Following the 2022 World Cup, POMEPS partnered with Georgetown University-Qatar’s Center for International and Regional Studies—which has had a long-standing interest in studying sports and politics in the MENA region,…
To cite this publication: Zayani, Mohamed, ed. A Fledgling Democracy: Tunisia in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings (London: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2023). In the tumultuous aftermath of the Arab…
To cite this publication: Zhou, Min, and Hasan Mahmud, eds. Beyond Economic Migration: Social, Historical, and Political Factors in US Immigration (New York: New York University Press, 2023). Most understandings…
The 2021-2022 CIRS Annual Report contains information about all the activities, research initiatives, publications, lectures, and events that CIRS organized throughout the year. Highlights include the publication of newly published…
To cite this publication: Al-Arian, Abdullah, ed. Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game (London: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2022). Far and away the most popular sport…
To cite this publication: Nikolay Kozhanov, ed. Russian Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East: New Trends, Old Traditions (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2022). This book sheds light on Russia’s motives in…
To cite this publication: David B. Roberts, ed. Reflecting on the GCC Crisis: Qatar and Its Neighbours (London & New York: Routledge, 2022). In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE,…
