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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

World Cup 2022: Profits and Authoritarian Intolerance or Human Rights and Sports Integrity?

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Should a new set of rules be developed which will force FIFA, football's international governing body, to follow certain guidelines when...
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Sunday, October 30, 2022

Saudi Arabia under Muhammad Bin Salman's Regime is No Longer a US Ally: The Need for a New American Foreign Policy in the Gulf

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MBS and Putin at G20 Summit, November 2018 Why is United States foreign policy in the Gulf no longer relevant given the region's current...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

"Women, Life, Freedom": Could a hijab dispute topple the Islamic Republic of Iran?

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Mahsa Amini Mahsa Amini was an Iranian Kurdish woman who was visiting Tehran with her brother for the first time.  Either she wasn't wea...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Does the United States Really Misunderstand Iran آیا آمریکا واقعا ایران را اشتباه می‌فهمد؟

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Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi A recent Opinion article in the New York Times, "How the United States Misunder...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

أزمة المياه في العراق: هل يمكن لسد بخمة المساعدة فيحلها؟ Iraq’s Water Crisis: Could the Bakhma Dam Help Solve It

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The New Middle East is pleased to welcome Jabbar Jaafar, a strategic communications specialist, as co-author of this post , especially beca...
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Eric Davis
Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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