2014 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 October 2014 What was Different about the Ottoman War? Erik Jan Zürcher · October 2014 We can approach the immense historical phenomenon of World War I on different levels: global, national, regional and even local. On one level World War I, or the “Great War” as it was known until 1939, certainly was a world war in the sense of a global conflict. The war in the Middle East (…) May 2014 Muslim Show, a French comic book series takes on the world Warda Mohamed · May 2014 In another life, Norédine Allam was a comic book star in France and Europe. From the Dargaud publishing house to the Astérix studios, his talents were fought until the launch of the ’Islamic’ comic, Muslim’ Show. Although the collection has met with a frank success in some thirty countries, it (…) April 2014 The case for an independent Turkish Cypriot State within the EU Hugh Pope · April 2014 A new round of talks has started in Cyprus. But it is unlikely that it will produce any viable solution for the divided island. Fresh tinking is needed in order to put an end to the division of the Island, a direct result of the 1974 Turkish invasion. Could the solution be found in the creation (…) Syrian Armenians are caught in the middle of a propaganda war Vicken Cheterian · April 2014 On March 21 the attack on Kessab, a Syrian town inhabited by Armenians, triggered an intense campaign of propaganda based on supposed “massacres” perpetrated by Turkey. Armenian Diaspora organizations compared this event with the 1915 genocide. Although it was true that Turkey provided direct (…) March 2014 Does volunteering for Israeli army comply with international law ? Marc Cher-Leparrain (1956-2019) · March 2014 A dozen states in the world are opening the doors of their army to foreign nationals. A single country however is opening them according to sole ethno-religious criterion : Israel. Beyond the ideological raison d’être, this raises the question of compliance with international law by States that (…) January 2014 Oman says No to Saudi Arabia Marc Cher-Leparrain (1956-2019) · January 2014 Unlike Saudi Arabia, locked into its hostility toward Iran, Oman has always been able to maintain good neighbouring policy with the Islamic Republic. While Riyadh sees Shia Iran as a dangerous political and religious rival to its own hegemony in the Gulf, Muscat sees it as a natural and (…) Egypt’s Quest for Itself Peter Harling, Yasser El Shimy · January 2014 Egypt’s transition is as contradictory and tempestuous as the current state of its society, and tells us much about it. What is still lacking is a sense of direction that could reassure both Egyptians and onlookers on where it is heading. Instead, a whirlwind of reversals, about-faces, and false (…)