Scholarly Journals

Dr. Brandon Friedman discusses the tension between Saudi Arabia’s aspirations for leadership in the region, and the necessity for it to act in concert with other regional actors to achieve its objectives, due to its vulnerability and military weakness. This article is part of a special issue of "Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs", published by MDC's Hiwar Forum, with support from the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Israel office.

Chelsi Mueller has published an article in "The History & Memory journal", discussing how Bahraini historical collective memory of a Shi'a uprising in 1922 was used politically during the 2011 uprisings in Bahrain.

Brandon Friedman, director of research at MDC, published an article in "Bustan: A Middle East Book Review", reviewing Ben Hubbard, David B. Ottaway, and Madawi Al-Rasheed's books on nationalism and development in Saudi Arabia.

Brandon Friedman, director of Research at MDC, and Ori Sela from the department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University, published a new article in "The Global Policy Journal", which looks at the merit of using the lens of the Cold War to analyze contemporary Sino-American competition in the Middle East.

Nir Boms and Stéphane Cohen have published an article in "Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs", which summarizes over a decade of Israeli involvement in Syria following the Syrian uprising-turned-war that began on March of 2011.

Nir Boms and Hussein Aboubakr have published an article in "Religions", where they seek to explain the rise of a new Gulf-led axis and the early formulation of a new agenda of a more tolerant Middle East, as was manifested in the Abraham Accords.

Ofra Bengio has published an article in "Israel Affairs", where she examines the relationship between Jews, Israel and the Kurds.

Joel Parker has published an article in "The Journal of the Middle East and Africa".

Nir Boms and Kivanc Ulusoy have published an article in "Estudos Internacionais" about the relations between Israel and Turkey within the context of the East Mediterranean.

Ofra Bengio has published an article in "The Middle East Journal", where she compares elementary school textbooks in the Kurdish autonomous enclave of Rojava in Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.