Tweet by David Ramin Jalilvand Holding the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, Iran was expected to become a large-scale exporter for many decades. Iranian officials contributed to these expectations by announcing ambitious export targets – for example the goal of a 10%-share of global gas trade, put forward repeatedly. Only in the past decade, Iran announced new export projects […]
Tweet The following is the executive summary of a new briefing for Al Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights and self-determination within the framework of international law. LSE PhD Alaa Tartir and co-author Jeremy Wildeman, a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, argue that the […]
Tweet Imagine a life without any memories. As LSE PhD and 2012-2013 Emirates PhD Support Award Winner Hadi Makarem writes, without memories, we have lives without pasts, without any anticipations for the future and importantly, lives without identities. In the face of different memories across the population that were often hostile to one another, at end of the Civil War in Lebanon, leaders […]
Tweet Kurdish political parties in the Middle East are more important political actors than ever before. Yet whether they prefer mere autonomy or a nation state remains unclear as LSE PhD candidate and Emirates PhD Award winner Zeynep Kaya considers. By Zeynep Kaya There is no doubt that Kurdish political parties in the Middle East are more important political actors […]
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