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The October 7 Tragedy and Iran’s Project to Prolong Turmoil in the Middle East

04/10/2026 12:51 PM

Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, was one of the major and consequential events of the twenty-first century in the Middle East. The attack, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 1,200 people in Israel and the abduction of 251 people, not only changed the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also affected...

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Israel’s 2026 Elections and Their Impact on the Future of the Middle East and the Kurdish Nation

23/09/2026 5:52 PM

Israel’s 2026 Elections and Their Impact on the Future of the Middle East and the Kurdish Nation By Arif Bawecani Some elections only concern the internal fate of a single country. Others, however, due to the nation's geographic, political, and strategic significance, exert a broad influence on the region and even on international...

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Can China Become a Security Power in the M.E. Without Falling Into the USA Trap?

04/09/2026 9:37 AM

Can China Become a Security Power in the M.E. Without Falling Into the USA Trap For a long time, China’s strategy in the Middle East was quite simple: trade with everyone, buy oil, invest in ports and infrastructure, respect the independence of states, but avoid as much as possible shouldering the burden of regional security. In some...

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From the Kurdish Question to the Geopolitics of the Levant

01/08/2026 12:51 PM

From the Kurdish Question to the Geopolitics of the Levant Introduction – From a recent article by Hadi Elis on the geopolitical question of the 21st century. The article by Hadi Elis, former spokesperson for the Canadian Kurdish Federation for 14 years, titled “NATO, Türkiye, and the Kurdish Question: Why the Alliance Still...

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When Flows Become the New Frontiers

24/07/2026 8:46 AM

When Flows Become the New Frontiers What if the world was no longer organized around regions , but around flows? For a long time, we learned to read the world by region: the Middle East, Europe, the Indo-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. This reading remains useful. It allows us to understand histories, borders, rivalries, peoples,...

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Middle East: War, expertise, and confusion

30/03/2026 12:15 PM

Middle East: War, expertise, and confusion. While watching news platforms dedicated to the war between the United States and Iran, I found myself experiencing a paradoxical feeling: the more experts spoke, the less clear the situation seemed. By hearing contradictory certainties, the simple spectator ends up not enlightened, but...

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Gaza and Tehran: Two Crises, One Logic?

28/01/2026 5:24 PM

Gaza and Tehran: Two Crises, One Logic?How the Middle East Prices Risk. In the Middle East,crisis are signals. Some crises provoke noise, outrage, and sometimes moral rhetoric. Others provoke silence, caution, and often "ambiguity". The contrast between Gaza and Tehran illustrates this pattern. To understand it, We need to switch...

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Iran’s Uprising and the Global Fallout

11/01/2026 8:00 AM

Iran’s Uprising and the Global Fallout : All newspapers and analysts are speculating about the “possible fall of the mullahs” and what will happen afterwards. What if the fall of the mullahs redrew the geopolitical map of the Middle East? For several weeks, Iran has been crossed by unusually large protests, affecting both major...