MDC Research and Analysis

Senior Research Fellow Asher Susser argues that despite innovations in technology, tradition continues to dominate Arab societies in "Tradition and Modernity" in the Arab Spring.

Yitzhak Gal discusses the transformation of Arab infrastructure, focusing specifically on sea ports.

MDC Visiting Scholars Büşra Süpürgeci and İ. Eralp Semerci explore the Kurdish question in the context of Turkish-Iraqi relations.

Joyce van de Bildt examines the phenomenon of imams being dispatched from the Middle East to serve Muslim immigrant communities in Europe.

Research fellow Harel Chorev explains why social media was a tool of, but not the cause of, the Arab Spring uprisings.