Read More 4 minute read MMiddle East Za’atari: Tale of A LeviathanbySamir MouraniOctober 20, 2014 For over 3 million Syrians, home is no longer Damascus, nor Aleppo, nor Homs, nor the many other…
Read More 6 minute read MMiddle East The Party of God: From Periphery to CorebySamir MouraniSeptember 29, 2014 The Lebanese confessional system, or what Arend Lijphart calls a consociational democracy, is far from perfect. The current system of…
Read More 6 minute read MMiddle East The Islamic State: A Decade in the MakingbySamir MouraniSeptember 15, 2014 The Islamic State’s rise to notoriety comes at a time when foreign intervention is a heavily criticized course…
Read More 4 minute read MMiddle East ISIS & Syria: Obama’s New House of CardsbySamir MouraniAugust 29, 2014 Less than three weeks ago, President Obama confirmed air strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions near the Kurdish…
Read More 4 minute read MMiddle East The Islamic State: Following the Money TrailbySamir MouraniAugust 14, 2014 The Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), continues to wreak…