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September 15, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
In a rather bizarre tirade published in the New York Times earlier this week, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister and top diplomat, urged the international community to "rid...
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September 9, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
In recent days, tempers have flared, voices have been raised and scathing words have been uttered by both Saudi Arabia and Iran as their dispute over the annual Islamic...
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August 2, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
On 2 August 26 years ago, Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in the early hours of the morning and, by the afternoon of the same day, had concluded decisively the...
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I was recently invited as a panellist for an event hosted by the Faiths Forum for London to discuss Iraq after Daesh, and potential scenarios for the future of...
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In light of the recent, botched coup attempt against the Turkish government and the will of the Turkish people, many commentators in the West have been agitated by the...
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Turkey's latest military coup has ended in ignominious failure. As these words are written, over 1,500 military personnel, including officers, have been taken into custody, and Turkish security forces...
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A wave of terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East and Asia in the past week have demonstrated yet again, and entirely definitively, that terrorism has...
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Despite many premature declarations of victory, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi held aloft the Green Zone-era Iraqi flag in Fallujah last Sunday. He immediately began talking about the next...
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Before I begin, let me first extend my most heartfelt condolences to the family of Jo Cox. She was an admirable woman who campaigned to end the suffering of...
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Turkey's new prime minister is now Binali Yildirim, the former transportation minister. As an engineer, his competence in more technical roles was in little doubt, but some have been...
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Iraqi news output over the past couple of months has been a seemingly incessant torrent of stories about the great, the indomitable, the righteous Moqtada Al-Sadr; Shia cleric...
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April 14, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
Saudi Arabia's recent deals with Egypt have attracted a whole host of harsh criticism from an assortment of commentators, analysts and political groups. Although the agreements between the two...
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January 20, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
Perhaps the most enduring and lasting impression that I have after speaking to and spending time with Ennahda officials and activists, as well as being familiar with their politics,...
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January 18, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
While the Tunisian political scene has recently garnered praise and attention for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, it has yet to win any prizes for establishing a thriving and...
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January 16, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
It is now five years since the ouster of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's long-time dictator and the first of the Arab despots to be successfully challenged and toppled...
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November 27, 2015
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
Following the downing of a Russian jet fighter by the Turkish Air Force last Tuesday, many have been questioning the details surrounding the incident. How did this happen over...
![People hold banners during a protest against defendants involved in last July’s attempted coup in Turkey in front of the prison where the defendants are being held on May 22, 2017 [Murat Kula/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_5_22-July-15-coup-attempt-case-trial-begins-in-Ankara20170522_2_23810248_22377534.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Turkey's latest military coup has ended in ignominious failure. As these words are written, over 1,500 military personnel, including officers, have been taken into custody, and Turkish security forces...
Perhaps the most enduring and lasting impression that I have after speaking to and spending time with Ennahda officials and activists, as well as being familiar with their politics,...![Ruins of the ancient city of Carthage, Tunis [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/No-tourists-only-lone-tour-guide-Hassan.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While the Tunisian political scene has recently garnered praise and attention for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, it has yet to win any prizes for establishing a thriving and...![Rafik Abdessalem, former minister of foreign affairs, and Abdelfattah Mourou, co-founder of the Ennahdha Party [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Dr-Rafik-Abdessalam-and-Sheikh-AbdelFattah-Mourou.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It is now five years since the ouster of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's long-time dictator and the first of the Arab despots to be successfully challenged and toppled...
