Insights

The CHS team regularly engages in international affairs by writing op-eds and sharing their opinions in TV interviews that are broadcast on regional and global platforms to wide audiences.

18 May 2023

Nakba at 75: No more excuses for western inaction on Israeli brutality

On the Nakba's 75th anniversary, people around the world must become more engaged with the desperate plight of the Palestinian people and Israeli barbarism against them....

17 Apr 2023

There is much danger in the Sudan crisis but also an opportunity

The eruption of fighting in the Sudanese capital on Saturday brought to Khartoum's seven million people the realities of Sudan's multiple conflicts. Many of its residents are themselves displaced by war and perhaps had hoped they had left those nightmares behind in the states they hail from....

Abdelwahab El Affendi

2 Apr 2023

Somalia: Campaign against al-Shabab must continue after the guns fall silent

An ongoing counterinsurgency offensive in Somalia in recent months has put the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab terror group on the run. The challenge now is to ensure that these gains are consolidated, and the momentum is maintained and leveraged for sustainable post-conflict stabilisation....

Khalil Osman

TV Interviews

13 Mar 2023

Post-Conflict Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and North Africa

Nour Allah Munawar

11 Mar 2023

What are the implications for Saudi-Iran diplomatic deal? Three reasons behind the deal

Ibrahim Fraihat

29 Dec 2022

The Afghani context needs the existence of women in the workforce to reach out to local communities

Iyad Nasr

Editorials & Articles

22 Mar 2023

Consociationalism vs "Democratic Sustainability" in Iraq

Twenty years after the US-led invasion that toppled the ruthlessly dictatorial Saddam Hussein regime, the record of democratization in Iraq remains a mixed bag. This blog briefly considers how Iraq fares when it comes democratic sustainability, the adaptations, self-corrections,.....

Khalil Osman

13 Mar 2023

We should condemn Russian crimes in Ukraine, but what about the crimes committed in Iraq?

Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on March 2nd, he told him in no uncertain terms, "End this war of aggression."....

Juan Cole

21 Feb 2023

Why Turkey's earthquake is a grim wake-up call for the Middle East

Two weeks on from the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, the death toll has now surpassed 44,000, as a new slow-motion disaster unfolds across northwestern Syria, compounding the already grave humanitarian crisis....

Ghassan Elkahlout, Sansom Milton