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Between the Millet System and EU Values: The Sunni Muslim Turkish State and Non-Muslim Minorities

Date

January 14, 2019

Contributing researcher Dr. Özgür Kaymak discusses minority-state relations in Turkey.

In the shadow of the yellow vests of France: Erdoğan settles accounts with the Gezi Park protesters

Date

January 6, 2019

Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak examines the discourse on Turkish social media concerning the recent arrest of Turkish academics who had participated in the 2013 Gezi Park protests, and the parallels that some users drew between that demonstration and the massive Yellow Vest protests in France.

“Bots,” arrests and the connection between them: the Modus Operandi of Mohammed bin Salman’s regime in Saudi power struggles

Date

January 6, 2019

Nachum Shiloh analyzes the modus operandi on social media of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his allies and opponents.

“First of all, I am an Egyptian citizen, and afterwards a Christian”: The Coptic Church in Egypt between religion and politics, as reflected on social media

Date

January 6, 2019

Michael Barak reviews the public discourse among the Coptic community on Egyptian social networking sites, which concerns the involvement of the church and its leader Patriarch Theodore II in political issues.

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Kurdistan's Moment in the Middle East

Author

Ofra Bengio

Published by

Moshe Dayan Center / מרכז משה דיין

Paperback / כריכה רכה

468 pages

₪

168

Year

2018

ISBN

978-965-224-109-2

Write down! We are a nation. Musa Kazim al-Husayni, a Political Biography (Hebrew)

Author

Yoni Furas

Published by

Moshe Dayan Center / מרכז משה דיין

Paperback / כריכה רכה

204 pages

₪

100

Year

2017

ISBN

978-965-224-111-5

Lost in Translation: New Paradigms for the Arab Spring

Author

Uzi Rabi,

Abdelilah Bouasria

Published by

Sussex Academic Press

Hardcover

272 pages

₪

300

Year

2017

ISBN

978-1-84519-766-7

Pictures from Recent Events

Pictures from "45 Years since the Yom Kippur War"

Memorial Symposium dedicated to the memory of Avishai Ben-Tzvi, Ziv Balali and Yehoshofat Netzer, 5 November 2018.

Pictures from "45 Years since the Yom Kippur War"

Maj.Gen. (res.) Ya'akov Amidror, 5 November 2018. Photo: Chen Galili

Pictures from "45 Years since the Yom Kippur War"

MDC Director Prof. Uzi Rabi, 5 November 2018. Photo: Chen Galili

Pictures from "45 Years since the Yom Kippur War"

5 November 2018. Photo: Chen Galili

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Bayan: The Arabs in Israel

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Ifriqiya: Africa Research and Analysis

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Dr. Joel Parker interviewed on Army Radio

January 8, 2019

Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak comments on Turkish "Brain Drain"

January 7, 2019

Dr. Mira Tzoreff on "Kan 11"

December 26, 2018

About the Moshe Dayan Center (MDC)

The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC) is a non-partisan interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of the contemporary Middle East and Africa. For over half a century, the MDC has helped to explain the complexities of the modern Middle East. Our guiding principle is that in order to understand the region, one must understand its cultures, peoples, languages, religions, and history.