January 31, 2022
Iran and the United States: Four Decades of Tension and Missed Opportunities
MESF's non-resident member Professor Anoush Ehteshami has an article published by The European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed). Read the article here.
January 31, 2022
Routledge Handbook of EU–Middle East Relations out now!
MESF's non-resident member Professor Michelle Pace is an editor of the recently published Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations. Find the handbook here.
January 28, 2022
Built on Power: Manifestations of China’s Presence in West Asia/MENA Region
Read the latest opinion piece by our non-resident member Professor Anoush Ehteshami, published by the SOAS China Institute, here.
January 27, 2022
ECPS Panel: Religious Populism, Cyberspace and Digital Authoritarianism in Asia – The Cases of India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia & Turkey (2/2/2022)
Join MESF's Professor Ihsan Yilmaz and Dr Mahmoud Pargoo who will be joining a host of speakers at this conference hosted by the European Centre for Populism Studies. For more information and to register, click here.
January 24, 2022
Dr Safiullah Taye now a member of the Board of International Advisory Editors at the Middle East Critique Journal
Find the journal here. Congratulations Dr Taye!
January 24, 2022
Religious Populism and Vigilantism: The Case of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan
MESF's Professor Ihsan Yilmaz has co-authored an article published in Populism & Politics. Read the article here.
January 21, 2022
Religious Populism, Cyberspace and Digital Authoritarianism in Asia: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey
MESF's Professor Ihsan Yilmaz and Dr Mahmoud Pargoo have contributed to this report, published in Populism & Politics. Read the full report here.
January 20, 2022
Conference: The authoritarian resurgence in the Middle East: Counter-revolutions, reform and resistance (2/2/2022)
MESFM Convenor Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh will be partaking in this conference hosted by the Australian National University. Find more information here.
January 20, 2022
Iranian proxies in the Syrian conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action
MESF Convenor Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh and MESF member Professor Anoush Ehteshami have a paper published in the Journal of Strategic Studies. Read it here.
January 18, 2022
MESF Convenor Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh discusses the militarization of Iranian politics with the Institute of Regional Studies Islamabad
See the full interview here.