Daraa City is widely known as the birthplace of the Syrian uprising.The uprising,which was initially motivated by high-minded ideas and opposition to the arbitrary violence of an authoritarian state,rapidly degenerate...
This paper focuses on the Bahraini regime’s usage of sectarianism as a survival mechanism.The argument herein has adopted a modernist approach,where sectarian identities are not viewed as fixed and as causes of an an...
Struggles for domination over the borderlands dividing Iran and the post-Ottoman states of Turkey and Iraq have a long history. Starting in early sixteenth century this borderland became the scene of wars of dominatio...
The geopolitical rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia is fueling much of the present conflict raging across the Middle East,including bloody proxy wars in Yemen,Iraq and Syria.Identity-based conflict has also gained ...
This article explores the concept of sects as social formations and the process of secularization sects has been undergone in the modern era, implying their exposition to political manipulation by various internal and...
This paper aims to analyze the background of the emergence of"Islamic State" and prevailing sectarian strife in the Middle East from the aspect of international relations, considering it as the result of the failure...