ContentThis book carries special importance since it is one of the few publications dealing comprehensively and critically with Iran's growing importance on the Arab political scene since the 1979 Islamic Revolution - and especially since…
The Arabs and Turkey Present Challenges and Future…
ContentThis article was translated by the ACRPS Translation and English Editing Department. The original Arabic version can be found here. The ACRPS in Doha held an academic conference under the title of "The Arabs and…
Revolutions, Reform, and Democratic Transition in the Arab…
ContentThis article was translated by the ACRPS Translation and English Editing Department. The original Arabic version can be found here.Between April 19 and April 23, 2011, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS)…
The European Media Campaign against the Qatar World…
Content From the very moment that FIFA announced Qatar had won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, objections rang loud. Doubts were raised about the Qatar’s ability to pull off an event…
The Covid-19 Pandemic in Iran: Health and Policy…
ContentIntroductionOn February 12, 2020, Iran marked the forty-first anniversary of the 1978-79 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. This anniversary of the revolution was then followed by elections to the eleventh parliament, the…
Indian Revocation of the Jammu and Kashmir’s Special…
ContentIntroductionThe struggle of the Muslims of the Indian Sub-continent against the British colonial rule was based on the idea that ‘both India’s Muslims and Hindus constituted two ‘Nations,’ each deserving their own state.[1] Hence, Pakistan’s…
Trump’s Defense Budget Militarizes US Foreign Policy
ContentThis Analysis was originally published on March 7, 2017 by the Arab Center, Washington, DC. Click here to learn more about ACW. The signature blueprint of any US president is the federal budget. Donald Trump is…
Finding Equilibrium: The Trilemma of Being a Woman…
ContentDelving into contemporary Iranian history, this article aims to unravel how Iranian subjectivity deals with its ambivalence towards women’s positionality in the nation’s present-day cultural and socio-political life. Freudian psychoanalysis suggests that experiencing ambivalent thoughts…
The Intersection of Three Governance Impasses: What Were…
ContentIntroductionThe initial outbreak of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising (September 2022-January 2023) turned into the longest street protest in Iran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Beginning as a reaction to the death of Mahsa Amini…