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 […]
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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 […]
The Limits of Comparison: Hamas-Hezbollah and the Politics of Disarmament
The near-simultaneous US-led campaigns to disarm Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have fostered a prevailing analytical assumption: that Hamas is either currently following […]
Why India and Iran Cannot Afford to Drift Apart
The war that has convulsed West Asia since February has tested every regional relationship, but few as quietly and as consequentially as the one between […]
Engineering Fear 3.0: The War of Corridors and the Redrawing of Middle East
In the first instalments of “Engineering Fear” (Parts I and II), we argued that ceasefires in the Middle East are no longer merely temporary pauses […]
Iran After the War: Between National Cohesion and Political Reform
The second war against Iran imposed by the United States and Israel in less than a year is a critical juncture in the Islamic Republic’s […]
Beyond Regional War: Ukraine’s Conflict as Catalyst of Russia’s Global Repositioning
When Russia invaded Ukraine in late February of 2022, it was seen as one of the biggest geopolitical shocks to the existing international order in […]
Full Text of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran
The United States and Iran signed a 14-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding on June 17, 2026. The deal was first announced on June 15 by […]
Negotiating Multipolarity: India’s Position in BRICS Transformation
Fareed Zakaria, in his book, ‘The Post-American World’, argues that we are not entering an era of American decline, but rather one defined by the […]
Algeria and Palestine: How Settler Colonialism Re-engineers Space and Sovereignty
If settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, then its most vivid manifestations occur not on the battlefield but in land registers, zoning […]