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Category: Middle East

Comments/Middle East

A Bilingual Bourgeois: The Class Politics behind Morocco’s Language Debate

Posted on November 2022 by Beckett Pechon-Elkins

“Je ne connais pas l’arabe”—I don’t speak Arabic. While the former Moroccan education minister didn’t realize it at the time, these seemingly innocuous words wo...

Africa/Americas/Asia/Comments/Europe/Middle East

Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change

Posted on November 2022 by Ethan Chiu / 1 Comment

In his 1958 campaign speech, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, “We are busily engaged in the construction of a gigantic road system ...

Comments/Middle East

Allies First, Deals Second: An Analysis of the Iran Deal

Posted on April 2022 by Rohan Krishnan

From the onset of the Biden presidency, the administration has promised the American people a renewed agreement, or “Iran Deal,” to cull nuclear proliferation b...

Asia/Comments/Middle East

A Precarious Situation: The Taliban’s Uyghur Dilemma

Posted on January 2022 by Ahmed Almoaswes

Since the Taliban’s return to power, the U.S. Federal Reserve has frozen just under $10 billion of Afghanistan’s assets. With a harsh winter about to settle in,...

Comments/Middle East

An Emerging Catastrophe: Implications of Climate Change on the MENA region

Posted on January 2022 by Mahnoor Saleem

In recent years, the state of countries in the Middle East and Northern African (MENA) region have painted a disturbing picture of the world ragged with em...

Arts and Culture/Campus/Middle East

“Our Art is Global”: Sultan Al-Qassemi on Art and Protest in the Middle East

Posted on April 2021 by Galia Newberger

On February 15th, the Yale Arab Students Association hosted Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Emirati columnist, researcher and the Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation, to...

Essays/Middle East/Spring Issue

Queer Biopolitics in Authoritarian Iran

Posted on April 2021 by Matthew Haide Zheng

This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) As photographer Laurence Rasti depicts above, queer life in Iran is fraught with tension....

Essays/Middle East/Spring Issue

The Atomic Bomb is What States Make of it: A Constructivist Approach to Sanctioning Iran

Posted on April 2021 by Raphael Piliero

This piece was published in the Spring Issue Print Edition (Volume 11) “There is no “logic” of anarchy apart from the practices that create and inst...

Comments/Middle East

Revisiting Lebanon: Dual Crises Linger Long After Beirut Explosion

Posted on April 2021 by Liam Will

On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion shook Beirut, Lebanon. Viral videos of the blast circulated around the world, triggering a global outpouring of sympathy ...

Americas/Comments/Middle East

A Means to End Nuclear Proliferation: An Argument for U.S. Recommitment to an Iran Nuclear Deal

Posted on April 2021 by Diba Ghaed

The City of Music is set to host a round of negotiations on a potential return to the magnum opus of nuclear agreements next week. Vienna, Austria’s capital cit...

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