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Hezbollah and Hamas: A Strategic Assessment

By Nasrin Akhter As the drums of war beat ever louder with Israel amassing hundreds of thousands of troops and tanks along the border with Gaza and ordering the evacuation of Israeli settlements along a 2km border zone…

Syria and Hamas : Some Reflections

By Nasrin Akhter  As Israel looks set to launch a massive ground invasion in Gaza in response to Hamas’ unprecedented incursion into Israel by air, land and sea under Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on the 7 October, events…

CSS at 2022 annual BRISMES Conference

  On July 4-6 the Institute of the Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS) at the University of St Andrews hosted the 2022 annual British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) conference…

Eight years since the ‘kingdom of silence’ spoke out

Ola Rifai Mar 15, 2019 On Sunday March 10th, the regime forces reinstated a new bronze statue of late president Hafez Asad in Daraa city, replacing an old one that was taken down by anti- Asad protesters in April 2011.…