MESF PhD Candidate Tezcan Gümüş was interviewed on 3RR radio on President Erdoğan’s fiery exchange with Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the aftermath of the Christchurch attack.

Professor Ihsan Yilmaz was interviewed on ABC The World to discuss the Turkish Presidents comments that followed the Christchurch attack. Watch a short extract from the interview here.

Dr Taghreed Jamal al-Deen has published a new paper in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Read the full text here.

Dr James Barry has published a chapter on Armenian identity in Firat Oruc’s new OUP volume titled Sites of Pluralism: Community Politics in the Middle East. Pre-order the volume here.

A/Prof Ben Isakhan, DrAntonio Gonzalez Zarandona and Dr Taghreed Jamal al-Deen published a chapter in Firat Oruc’s Sites of Pluralism: Community Politics in the Middle East (OUP). Pre-order the volume here. 

Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed co-authored a new paper with Khan Zeb in Civil Wars on the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Read the full text here.

Dr Niamatullah Ibrahimi provided comments to the SBS News website on the Afghan peace process. The full article is available here.

Professor Michelle Pace published a Sirius new working paper on migrant and refugee integration. Read the full working paper here.

MESF network member Professor Michelle Pace published a new chapter titled ‘The Governance Deficit in the Middle East Region’ in the new Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security. Further details are available here.

2018 was a busy year for the MESF team! Read our annual report to catch up on the highlights here.