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Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and the limits of Islamist electoral politics
The recent electoral performance of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has revived an old debate: are Islamists structurally incapable of winning national elections, or was Jamaat’s perceived rise a misreading of political reality? In the last couple of months during the election campaign, a number of national and international media outlets have portrayed…
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Yemen and the shifting alliances in the Middle East
Recent developments in Yemen are revealing deeper fractures within the Middle East’s alliance system, particularly within the Sunni camp, while also exposing how the “Muslim Brotherhood threat” narrative is being redeployed to justify shifting geopolitical interests. The Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia, and the Yemen exception A recent statement published by…
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The post-Assad dawn: Syria’s struggle to rise again
On 8 December, Syria marked the first anniversary of its liberation from the Baathist dictatorship that had dominated the country since 1971. The spark of opposition during the Arab Spring of 2011—initially suppressed by the Assad regime—grew into a popular tide that ultimately toppled one of the most entrenched authoritarian…
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Zahran Mamdani’s victory: A crack in the empire’s mirror
Last night, in one of the most dramatic elections in recent US history, Zahran Mamdani, a Muslim candidate of Indian African descent, achieved a landslide victory. This triumph came despite facing formidable opposition from the forces of Zionism, capitalism, and racialist religious supremacism, which mobilized significant resources in terms of…
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Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Sharaa’s manoeuvring
Recently, Al Jazeera.net published an article by Ahmad Muwaffaq Zaidan, media adviser to Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, urging the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood to dissolve itself in the broader interest of consolidating the newly strengthened regime. Around the same time, Sky News Arabia reported that Al-Sharaa distanced himself from any association…