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Syria: the Future of the State of Uncertainty
The Syrian-Iraqi Border: Reshaping the Geopolitical Space of the Middle East
Op-Ed
Real clear world: A former terrorist inside the white house
Op-Ed
NYT: The President and A Former Terrorist Meet at the White House
Syria: the Future of the State of Uncertainty
The Syrian Unity Predicament: Files of Sovereignty, Security, and the Kurdish Issue
The Palestinian–Israeli Conflict
Trump’s Plan: Second Phase Scenarios
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SYMBOLS IN THE ARAB MIND
This paper examines the significance of employing symbols in various aspects of life, particularly in political ones, and how these symbols are linked to individuals and groups, affecting their behavior, perceptions and impressions, so that they ultimately become an integral part of political culture.
Political Islam’s Crisis of Thought and Practice
This opinion article discusses the series of collapses, which the political Islam groups faced while in power after 2011, represent a political inevitability that has its indicators and signs in the intellectual roots of those groups and their practices throughout history.
Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood: Ideological Similarities and Historical Relations
The relations between the Muslim Brotherhood and post-Islamic Iran in 1979 is one of the ambiguous themes for the researchers and scholars, because of the secrecy and ambiguity surrounding it. Nevertheless, a group of ideological and historical relations show the close connection and correlation between them, and the mutual influence between the two parties.
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US, UK, Israel should help form an Arab NATO - opinion
The US and UK helped Islamic militias flourish in the MENA region; they can help defeat them now.
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Political Islam and Intellectual Poverty
With their beliefs and methodologies, the political Islam groups have contributed to making Arab Muslim mentality closed to other civilizations, thus contradicting what the early Islamic Renaissance pioneers advocated, that is, benefiting from other nations' modernity and development.
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Are we witnessing a transformation in America's image with its allies in the Middle East? What are the Challenges?
The relations between the US allies are experiencing a fundamental change, starting from competitions, alliances, and polarizations up to the communication, dialogue, and cooperation in the fields of security, energy, transportation, and military coordination. This is accompanied by a transformation in the US commitment in the Middle East to head towards the Indo-Pacific region. Accordingly, researcher Muhammad Barhouma presents an interpretation for the change in the map relations between Washington allies. Mr. Barhouma answers the main question: Would such transformations be able to Fill the Strategic Vacuum Resulted by the American withdrawal?
The Global Trends for the Future of the Military Force
Global military force is witnessing an increasing trend in equipping national armies with the tools of cyber war, hybrid warfare, and smart power. At the same time, Global powers are competing to acquire the Sixth-Generation hyper-sonic weaponry and space militarization. Such matter requires huge efforts to balance the study of "virtual" war reality and the data from the ground for the wars in future.
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TALIBANIST AFGHANISTAN: THE FUTURE AND THE IMPLICATIONS ON POLITICAL ISLAM
This paper assesses the first months of Taliban's rule, citing the elements of power and weakness which such movements demonstrated until the end of the year 2021. It also explores the future and nature of Taliban's continuation to dominate Afghanistan, and the implications of such continuity over the international landscape of political Islam.
THE HYBRID EXPERIENCE OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN JORDAN
This paper presents a study for the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan over centuries since this group was founded in 1945. The study is focusing via a descriptive and analytical view on the hybrid mixture in the Muslim Brotherhood practices, which range from the religious charity dimensions and the political considerations, along with the changes and transformations in the Muslim Brotherhood's discourse, which turned from being of breaching into being of protesting.