Tracing the formation of the contemporary Middle East from its turbulent past, ‘The Middle East Crisis Factory’ is an invaluable text for readers wishing to understand why, from antiquity onwards, the Middle East matters. The ...
Jun 19, 2020 Dar al-Ifta, Egypt’s top institution for fatwas or religious edicts, has sparked widespread controversy when it described the Ottoman control of the city of Constantinople — Turkey’s capital until 1923 when it ...
Turkey’s quest for a military campaign to drive Kurdish militants out of the northern Iraqi region of Sinjar has refueled the Turkish-Iranian rivalry for influence in oil-rich Mosul, which many Turks see as a lost ...