April 29, 2020
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Usman Butt The nature of authoritarian rule in Syria remains little understood outside the country. As a notoriously closed society with limited access to the outside world before the 2000s, with...
April 14, 2020
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Usman Butt Ahmed El Shamsy’s Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed An Intellectual Tradition takes us into the story of how seminal works of Islamic philosophy, theology,...
March 6, 2020
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Usman Butt The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew F March comes to us at an interesting time. The 2011 Arab Spring led many across the...
December 26, 2019
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Usman Butt Events in the Arab world and beyond over the past decade have ignited an intense debate about Islam, Muslims and political engagement. A common theme of western historical research...
November 29, 2019
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Usman Butt Professor Ilan Pappé cautions against overly optimistic readings of the Netanyahu affair
November 19, 2019
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Usman Butt Over the summer of 2019, observers of events in Syria were left bemused by the news that Rami Makhlouf had been placed under house arrest. It simply didn’t make...
November 11, 2019
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Usman Butt For the past few weeks, Lebanon has been rocked by anti-government protests calling for a change in the ruling system and an end to corruption, economic decay and political...
November 4, 2019
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Usman Butt What is the difference between a democratic society and a dictatorship? In a nutshell, a death in a democracy is a personal tragedy, but in a dictatorship it is...
September 3, 2019
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Usman Butt The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History by Ross Caputi, Richard Hil and Donna Mulhearn makes for chilling reading as it takes us inside the three sieges that the...
May 30, 2019
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Usman Butt It is not usual to begin a book review with a quote from elsewhere, but, “Bad men need nothing more to compress their ends, than that good men should...
Could Benny Gantz be the new face of Israeli politics?
Is Netanyahu's anti-Palestinian rhetoric enough to keep him in power despite corruption allegations?
March 27, 2019
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Usman Butt “When ISIS soldiers arrest me and kill me, it will be okay, because while they will cut off my head, I’ll still have dignity, which is better than living...
February 19, 2019
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Nazli Tarzi |
Usman Butt 'Drop BP. Drop BP'
February 1, 2019
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Usman Butt Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini arrives back in Iran after 15 years of exile, signalling the start of the Iranian revolution
December 4, 2018
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Usman Butt Professor Nadia Yaqub speaks to MEMO about her book "Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution" which launched in London during the Palestine Film Festival
The nature of authoritarian rule in Syria remains little understood outside the country. As a notoriously closed society with limited access to the outside world before the 2000s, with...
Ahmed El Shamsy’s Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed An Intellectual Tradition takes us into the story of how seminal works of Islamic philosophy, theology,...
The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew F March comes to us at an interesting time. The 2011 Arab Spring led many across the...
Events in the Arab world and beyond over the past decade have ignited an intense debate about Islam, Muslims and political engagement. A common theme of western historical research...![Prof Ilan Pappe at MEMO and EuroPal Forum conference The Palestine Question in Europe on 23 November 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SRV_3622.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Professor Ilan Pappé cautions against overly optimistic readings of the Netanyahu affair![Damaged buildings in a residential area after the Assad Regime carried out air strikes in Idlib, Syria on 28 August 2019 [Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Airstrikes-continue-to-hit-Syria20190826_2_37912765_47065909.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Over the summer of 2019, observers of events in Syria were left bemused by the news that Rami Makhlouf had been placed under house arrest. It simply didn’t make...
For the past few weeks, Lebanon has been rocked by anti-government protests calling for a change in the ruling system and an end to corruption, economic decay and political...![Demonstrators gather to stage a protest against the government's tax policy in Beirut, Lebanon on October 23, 2019. [Mahmut Geldi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191023_2_38928422_48772561.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
What is the difference between a democratic society and a dictatorship? In a nutshell, a death in a democracy is a personal tragedy, but in a dictatorship it is...
The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History by Ross Caputi, Richard Hil and Donna Mulhearn makes for chilling reading as it takes us inside the three sieges that the...
It is not usual to begin a book review with a quote from elsewhere, but, “Bad men need nothing more to compress their ends, than that good men should...
Could Benny Gantz be the new face of Israeli politics?
Is Netanyahu's anti-Palestinian rhetoric enough to keep him in power despite corruption allegations?
“When ISIS soldiers arrest me and kill me, it will be okay, because while they will cut off my head, I’ll still have dignity, which is better than living...
'Drop BP. Drop BP'
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini arrives back in Iran after 15 years of exile, signalling the start of the Iranian revolution
Professor Nadia Yaqub speaks to MEMO about her book "Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution" which launched in London during the Palestine Film Festival