Gulf Region

  • Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws and Statelessness in the Middle East

    The United Nations 1954 Statelessness Convention defines a stateless person as someone who is not considered a national by any State under the operation of its law. Although statelessness is not a recent phenomenon and stateless individuals have existed for centuries due to post-war migration, territorial changes, state succession, or forced displacement following natural disasters,…

  • Migration and the Making of the Modern Arab World

    Migration has been a feature of Arab history long before the emergence of passports, borders and international airports. Before modern states took shape, people crossed deserts and seas in search of trade, knowledge, opportunity and faith. Traders carried spices and silk, along with languages, customs and ideas. Scholars moved between cities, exchanging knowledge that would…

  • The Baloch Tragedy: Rebellion, Insurgency and the Question of Survival

    Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by land area, has been the site of one of South Asia’s longest-running armed conflicts. Stretching along the Arabian Sea coast and bordering both Iran and Afghanistan, the province sits at the intersection of immense strategic value and chronic underdevelopment- a contradiction at the heart of the massive Baloch insurgency. Home…

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