A regional reading of the Kurdish question as a matter of self-determination, civil war, counterterrorism, refugees, and competing state interests.
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A comparison of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar through hydrocarbon rents, monarchy, migrant labor, human rights, and outward image strategy.
A durable report that separates Israeli citizens, Palestinian citizens, the diaspora, and neighboring societies, and reads memory, fear, loss, and daily life alongside security policy.
A comparative report on Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and the Gulf states through state formation, regime type, social problems, and regional ties.
From the purges of the 1980s to "Women, Life, Freedom" in 2022 and beyond, we will organize the series of civil oppression and protest movements in post-revolution Iran.
This paper examines the Iranian political system after the 1979 revolution, starting with the connections between the supreme leader, the Council of Experts, the Guardian Council, the judiciary, the Revolutionary Guards, and the electoral system.