CENTRE for RELIGIOUS PLURALISM in the MIDDLE EAST

The Foundation presents informed analysis on the interaction of religion and conflict globally in order to counter religious prejudice, conflict and extremism.

The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) is a private, not-for-profit, non-political organization of persons interested in Iranian Studies in the broadest sense.

Contemporary Arab Affairs seeks to publish work by specialists, policy experts and scholars from the region itself and the international community.

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations promotes the scholarly study of Islam as a religious and intellectual tradition, and its relations with Christianity and other religions.

The Center's mission is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West and enhance understanding of Muslims in the West. The geographic scope and coverage of the center includes the breadth of the Muslim world, from North Africa to Southeast Asia, as well as Europe and America.

The Journal of Arabian Studies is focusing on the Arabian Peninsula, its surrounding waters, and their connections with the Western Indian Ocean (from West India to East Africa), from Antiquity to the present day. It covers a wide range of topics, in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.

The Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter is an inter-disciplinary team of researchers in humanities and social sciences interested in all aspects of anthropology, history, economy, politics and society of the Gulf region. The Centre’s collective expertise encompasses the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran.

Iranian Studies is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to Iranian and Persian history, literature, and society, published on behalf of the International Society for Iranian Studies . Its scope includes all areas of the world with a Persian or Iranian legacy, especially Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and northern India.

The CEMMIS research and analysis group is designed to form a Political Risk Evaluation Unit, which geographically covers the countries of North Africa, from Morocco and Mauritania to Egypt, the countries of the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf including Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In addition, it covers the Horn of Africa from Sudan and Somalia to Ethiopia and Eritrea. There is special focus on general economic, cultural and political trends in the whole of the

Egypt Today is the nation’s oldest and bestselling English-language social affairs magazine, providing features, profiles and in-depth analysis since 1979. We go beyond just the facts to provide readers with the stories behind the headlines, the stories that haven’t made the headlines and with unique perspectives, context and depth.

Watani is an Egyptian weekly Sunday newspaper published in Cairo. The word Watani is Arabic for “My Homeland”. The paper was founded in 1958 by the prominent Copt Antoun Sidhom (1915 – 1995), who strove for the establishment of a civil, democratic society in Egypt, where all Egyptians would enjoy full citizenship rights regardless of their religious denomination. This remains Watani’s objective to this day, leaning neither left nor right on the political level, but following its own clear

The already high tensions in the Middle East escalated dramatically on Tuesday after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane along the country’s southern border with Syria. Turkey said the Sukhoi Su-24 fighter had violated its airspace, and released a map showing the apparent path of the jet over a chunk of Turkish territory bordering Syria. Russia denies the violation, and President Vladimir Putin denounced the downing of the plane as a “stab in the back.”

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The clash of visions over the Iraqi state’s identity, legitimacy, and ownership, long predating the U.S.-led invasion of the country in 2003, has been the root cause of political violence in postwar Arab Iraq.

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Sectarian identities were supposedly formed in the Middle East centuries ago, and yet they seem to breed the region’s bloodiest conflicts today.

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In the world of religion, many observers suggest that the Sunni-Shia rift in Islam is similar to the Catholic-Protestant one in Christendom.

FEBRUARY 1 — Hostility between Sunnis and Shiites has become a dominant feature of intra-Muslim relations today. Indeed, the first decades of the 21st century will be known as a period of protracted conflict between these two major denominations of Islam.

Next Sunday, some 80 mosques will invite the public in to counter negative stereotypes about Britain's Muslim minority.

Amid mounting death tolls in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, sectarian discourse is on the rise across the Arab world—particularly in the online sphere, where extremist voices are amplified and violent imagery and rhetoric spreads rapidly.

KHARTOUM, Sudan — ‪Increasingly, Sudan appears to be assuming greater space in Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy. Last year, Sudanese warplanes and troops joined the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Moreover, Sudan is the only country, besides Bahrain, which has joined Saudi Arabia in recently cutting