Evan Fazio's blog In Iran, what started as protests about food prices and inflation spread throughout the country, expanding in scope to include opposition to the theocratic regime itself. Iran experts Saeid Golkar and Nicola Pedde join guest host St ...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/supreme-leader-transform-iran-180119150... January 21, 2018 Al JazeeraPolicy & PoliticsPolicy & PoliticsMiddle East Saeid Golkar ...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/opinions/the-tragic-truth-about-americas-longest-... February 1, 2018 CNNPolicy & Politics, Middle EastPolicy & PoliticsMiddle East Ivo H. Daalder ...
assad_syria.jpg John Cookson's blog assad_syria.jpg Next month will mark the end of the seventh year of civil war in Syria. What began as street-level protests in a few cities has grown into conflict that has devastated the country and its people, ...
Join the Council on Global Affairs and Member of Knesset Stav Shaffir for a conversation on the current political situation in Israel. This program is exclusively for members of the Council's Board of Directors; Founders' Circle, Chairman’s Circ ...
Evan Fazio's blog Stav Shaffir, the youngest-ever woman elected to Israel's parliament, joins Deep Dish to discuss corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as her own Labor party's failure to pull ahead in polli ...
Where does the peace process go from here? After a year in which Russia and North Korea absorbed the United States’ diplomatic energies, attention rapidly refocused on the Middle East on December 6 with President Trump’s controversial decision to recogni ...
Tensions between Islam’s two main religious sects—Sunni and Shia—are spiraling out of control and threaten to redraw the map of the Middle East. At the epicenter of the divide are the predominantly Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, who are considered to b ...
syria_ghouta_1500x1000.jpg Evan Fazio's blog Deep Dish often takes a strategic or policy-oriented view toward conflicts around the world. In this episode, we pause to consider the real human lives impacted by the headlines we read. Becky Carroll of C ...
Since becoming Saudi Arabia’s newest heir apparent, Mohammed bin Salman is set on reshaping the Kingdom’s image. The recent anti-corruption sweep, social reforms, and Vision 2030—an agenda to wean the country’s oil reliance and diversify its economy—are a ...
