The Islamic Republic as we know it cannot endure. However, its collapse or transformation does not guarantee liberation. What ...

In the aftermath of the 12-Day War, both Israeli and US officials were insistent that regime change in Iran was not one of the objectives — notwithstanding some mostly symbolic actions by Israel that ...

The SDF and the armed factions that assumed control in Damascus also have more than a decade of tensions and hostilities ...

Last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei effectively greenlit mass killings to save his regime. His message was blunt: ...

Iran is at a critical juncture. The clerical establishment is confronting the most sustained and deadly unrest it has faced ...

This exhibition features the work of 12 Kuwaiti artists whose work moves between distilled abstraction and immersive inquiry, ...

This essay discusses the progressive development of India-Saudi Arabia relations. It looks first at the landmark visits that have laid the foundation and supplied the momentum for progress in the ...

Mr. Pramit Pal Chaudhuri is a Distinguished Fellow, Ananta Aspen Centre, and Foreign Editor of the Hindustan Times, the primary newspaper of the Indian capital New Delhi. He has served as a delegate ...

Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat is an academic from Indonesia whose research focuses on China-Indonesia-Middle East relations. He is a research professor at Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies, Busan ...

Civil society groups can play an important role in promoting and working for democracy and in holding political elites accountable to citizens. In Malaysia and Singapore, there have long been groups ...

Syed Farid Alatas, a Malaysian national, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also headed the Department of Malay Studies at NUS from 2007 to 2013. He ...