BLOG APPROACHING THE MENA REGION: BOOK REVIEWS, ANALYSIS AND MORE
“Some changes are for good/ And this I know for sure”. At least, this is what Dionne Warwick used to sing back in the 1970s. We don’t know if Brian Hook thought the change was for good when in March 2018 US President Donald Trump decided to dismiss Rex Tillerson, who had been the US Continue Reading
“Making the Arab World” is a superb dual biography of two of the key figures of twentieth-century Egyptian history, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Sayyid Qutb. At the same time, however, the book written by Fawaz A. Gerges is much more than this. In his work, the Lebanese-American scholar recounts the evolution of Egypt before Nasser Continue Reading
After the publication of the final results of the Israeli parliamentary elections, Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent, emerges as the winner of the April 9 polls. The Prime Minister, who is going to be indicted for different corruption charges by the Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, put himself at the center of the electoral campaign. The Continue Reading
On March 31 local elections were celebrated in Turkey. We try to analyse the results of the elections by looking at three key aspects that marked the electoral contest. The discrepancy between overall vote and the results in Turkey’s largest cities It is impossible to find a single indicator for a comprehensive assessment of the Continue Reading