Associate Professor Benjamin Isakhan was interviewed on ABC’s The World Today on the Iraqi elections. Listen to the interview.

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh has published new writing in Australian Outlook on the Iranian nuclear deal. Read the piece here.

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh was interviewed by Glen Bartholomew on ABC News Radio this morning on the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

Dr David Tittensor was interviewed by Geraldine Doogue on ABC Radio National this morning on the upcoming Turkish election. Listen to the interview here.

MESF’s Dr Dara Conduit was interviewed on the Iranian nuclear deal on ABC News Breakfast this morning.

Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh has argued that ‘the winds of time have removed the dust of utopian ideas and revealed the rock of authoritarianism across the’ Middle East in a new OpEd in the Lowy Interpreter. Read it here.

Dr Dara Conduit was interviewed today by ABC Radio Melbourne’s Raphael Epstein on the international response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Eastern Damascus over the weekend.

MESF PhD candidate Safiullah Taye was interviewed by the International Peace Studies Centre on energy politics in Afghanistan. Read the article in full (Persian).

Dr Dara Conduit was interviewed by The New Daily on the humanitarian crisis in Ghouta, in Eastern Damascus. Read the full article here.

Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed was interviewed on the US decision to freeze aid to Pakistan on SBS Urdu. Listen to the recording here.