MESF’s Dr Niamat Ibrahimi was interviewed by Al Jazeera on the recent targeted violence against the Hazara community in Afghanistan. Read it here.

Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed has published new analysis in Australian Outlook on the first 100 days of the new Pakistani administration. Read it here.

Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed published a new paper with Dr Venkat Pulla and Dr Manohar Pawar in Space and Culture, India. Read it here.

Prof Akbarzadeh discussed the life sentence given to Durham University PhD student Matthew Hedges on ABC PM. Listen here.

Dr Dara Conduit has published a new article in the Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations on the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’s mid-century democratic experiment. Read it here.

The Middle East Studies Forum hosted its third biennial Middle East studies conference at Deakin University’s Burwood campus from 29-31 October 2018. Read more.

MESF PhD candidate Abbas Farasoo published an OpEd in Fair Observer on the ongoing Taliban campaign in central Afghanistan. Read it here.

Dr Dara Conduit and Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh have published a new paper in the Journal of Contemporary China on China-Iran relations in the Belt and Road Initiative era. A free copy of the full text can be downloaded from here (first 50 downloads only).

Dr Ali Mozaffari’s book World Heritage in Iran: Perspectives on Pasargadae has been released in paperback. It can be purchased here.

Dr Dara Conduit and Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh published a new edited volume with Palgrave Macmillan on how oppositions in the Middle East have changed since 2009 and 2011. It is available for purchase here.