# Manara Magazine

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## Posts

- [The Hardware Trap in Modern Warfare](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/06/the-hardware-trap-in-modern-warfare/): The Iran conflict exposes the limits of military hardware, showing how resilience, geography and asymmetric warfare can blunt conventional power.
- [From Partnership to Pressure: Why the UAE’s Approach to Iran Is Changing](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/06/the-uaes-approach-to-iran-is-changing/): The UAE's relationship with Iran has evolved from economic partnership to strategic rivalry amid regional conflicts and security concerns.
- [Stability vs. Legitimacy: Syria's Central Transitional Dilemma](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/06/stability-vs-legitimacy-syrias-dilemma/): Syria's future depends on building security, performance, representation, and constitutional legitimacy at the same time—not in sequence.
- [Iran Is Drawing the Wrong Lesson from Libya’s Experience](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/06/iran-drawing-wrong-lesson-from-libya/): As U.S.-Iran talks continue, Libya's experience offers a warning: nuclear weapons cannot compensate for corruption, repression, and misrule.
- [U.S.-Iran Coercive Diplomacy Produces Managed Instability](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/05/us-iran-coercive-diplomacy-instability/): U.S.–Iran tensions reflect coercive diplomacy, driving regional instability, economic shocks, and alliance strain.
- [Agile Power: The UAE’s External Policy in an Era of Fragmentation](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/05/uaes-external-policy-era-fragmentation/): UAE shifts from omni-alignment to strategic diversification, leveraging flexible alliances, tech, and energy policy to secure autonomy amid Gulf instability.
- [Back to the Beginning? Hezbollah Is Still a Hybrid, Transnational, Rejectionist Organization](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/05/hezbollah-still-hybrid-organization/): Tracing Hezbollah’s rise from Lebanon’s civil war and Iran’s revolution, this analysis examines its hybrid identity, militancy, and enduring power across MENA.
- [How U.S. Interests in the Iran War Extend Beyond the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/05/us-interests-iran-extend-beyond/): Why the U.S.-Iran war is really about China: how Tehran’s rise, Gulf hedging, and Russian backing reshaped Washington’s strategy.
- [Why Afghan Women Judges Need Recognition and Protection](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/05/why-afghan-women-judges-need-protection/): Afghan women judges face grave Taliban threats yet remain excluded from protection schemes, exposing failures in global humanitarian systems and asylum aid.
- [Between Narrative and Reality: Hezbollah, 2024–2026](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/between-narrative-and-reality-hezbollah/): Hezbollah’s 2024 leadership crisis and survival face new limits in 2026, as war, losses, and pressure test its narrative, legitimacy, and resilience.
- [Why Hardliners Have Taken Power in Iran](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/why-hardliners-have-taken-power-in-iran/): Ceasefire in Iran masks failed regime change as hardliners rise, IRGC gains power, and conflict reshapes regional dynamics.
- [Hormuz at the Centre: How the Iran Conflict is Being Redefined](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/hormuz-how-iran-conflict-is-redefined/): US-Iran tensions deepen as failed talks, nuclear disputes, and Hormuz brinkmanship stall diplomacy, raising risks of escalation.
- [Seeing Isn't Believing: Disinformation and the Collapse of Verification in the Iran War](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/disinformation-verification-iran-war/): AI-driven disinformation in the Iran war erodes trust, overwhelms verification and reshapes conflict as truth struggles to compete with viral falsehood.
- [How the Athens-Riyadh Axis Is Developing a New Security Complex](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/athens-riyadh-axis-new-security-complex/): Greece forges defence ties with Saudi Arabia and UAE in a new Eastern Mediterranean-Middle East security axis.
- [After the Iran War: Israel and Nuclear Risk](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/after-the-iran-war-israel-nuclear-risk/): Israel nuclear strategy: deterrence, preemption, retaliation, and warfighting scenarios amid Iran threats, escalation risks, and strategic doctrine shifts.
- [Middle East War’s Next Phase: Who Will Open the Strait of Hormuz? – Part I](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/who-will-open-strait-of-hormuz-part-i/): Middle East war disrupts oil, gas and shipping as Hormuz blockade deepens, driving global energy shock, inflation and military escalation.
- [Middle East War’s Next Phase: Who Will Open the Strait of Hormuz? – Part II](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/who-will-open-strait-of-hormuz-part-ii/): Hormuz blockade deepens as US-Israel coalition weighs military action, and global energy markets face mounting disruption and risk.
- [Peace through Hedging – Pakistan’s Diplomacy in the Middle East Conflict](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/peace-hedging-pakistan-middle-east/): Pakistan positions itself as key mediator in US–Israel–Iran conflict, using hedging diplomacy, regional alliances, and China ties.
- [The US-Israel-Iran War and the Reorientation of the Kurdish-Turkish Peace Process](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/iran-war-reorientation-of-kurdish-peace/): US–Israel–Iran war reshapes Turkey–Kurdish peace process, shifting focus from reform to security, regional power shifts, and PKK strategy.
- [Israel’s New Military Strategy in Iran](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/israels-new-military-strategy-in-iran/): Analysis of the U.S.-Israel campaign in Iran, failed war aims, escalation toward total war, and targeting infrastructure and state power.
- [America’s Suez Canal Conundrum](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/americas-suez-canal-conundrum/): U.S. faces a modern Suez-style crisis as Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, triggering global energy shocks, allied tensions, and rising geopolitical risks.
- [Iran-Israel Conflict Raises Questions on Effectiveness of AI-Integrated Air Defence Systems](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/iran-israel-effectiveness-of-ai-defence/): Israel–Iran conflict escalates as AI-driven Israeli air defences face strain from Iran’s saturation missile tactics and evolving warfare.
- [The Long Tail of Operation Epic Fury: Structural Disorder After the Guns Fall Silent](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/epic-fury-structural-disorder/): Operation Epic Fury’s aftermath reshapes Gulf security, markets, and nuclear risk, transforming Iran from containable threat to systemic disorder.
- [Lebanon and Syria’s Nightmare: A Syrian Military Intervention Against Hezbollah](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/syrian-intervention-against-hezbollah/): U.S. pressure on Syria to target Hezbollah in Lebanon’s Bekaa raises fears of regional escalation, sectarian conflict, and wider Middle East instability.
- [The UK’s withdrawal from the Middle East: The time for a bold recourse of action](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/the-uks-withdrawal-from-the-middle-east/): UK ends 46-year Middle East naval presence, raising strategic, economic, and security challenges amid Iran crisis. Fleet renewal and allies now key.
- [Syria amidst Regional Turmoil](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/04/syria-amidst-regional-turmoil/): The best-case scenario – at least for Syria at the moment – might the containment of Hezbollah within a strong Lebanese state. 
- [Iraq Is No Longer a Bystander in This War](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/iraq-no-longer-a-bystander-in-this-war/): Airstrikes, retaliatory attacks, and cross-border escalation in Syria and beyond entail that Iraq can no longer remain a bystander in this war.
- [Iraq’s Oil Shock is Becoming a Payroll Crisis](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/iraqs-oil-shock-becoming-payroll-crisis/): Iraq is no longer coping with an energy shock but confronting the slow unraveling of a political and economic order.
- [Will turmoil in the Middle East bring about a ‘Cypriot-led, Cypriot-owned’ peace process?](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/a-cypriot-led-cypriot-owned-peace/): The Cypriot peace process has been unpredictable for the past 50 years. There are nonetheless some signs of progress (and even optimism).
- [Off Ramps…and On Ramps amidst the Iran War](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/off-rampsand-on-ramps-amidst-iran-war/): A regional ceasefire safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz could lay the foundation for negotiating a security and economic architecture for the region.
- [Iran War Forces Kurdish Groups into the Spotlight](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/kurdish-groups-into-spotlight/): Without a political groundwork, a Kurdish-led military strategy risks deepening Iran’s internal fractures rather than accelerating political change.
- [Turkey’s Peace Process in the Context of the Kurdish–Turkish Conflict and Implications for European Union Policy](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/turkeys-peace-process-kurdish-turkish/): Analysis of Turkey’s Kurdish peace process, its political risks, regional dynamics, and why a lasting settlement is crucial for EU security, migration, and economic interests.
- [The Kurdish Question in Iran’s War Moment: A Conversation with Abdulla Pashew](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/the-kurdish-question-in-irans-war-moment-a-conversation-with-abdulla-pashew/): Interview with Kurdish poet Abdulla Pashew on Iran war, Kurdish self-determination, political unity, culture, exile, and the future of Kurdish nationalism.
- [When Regional Hedging Fails: War Comes to the Gulf’s Doorstep](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/war-comes-to-the-gulfs-doorstep/): The war may prompt Gulf states to weigh the implications of Israel’s growing regional assertiveness alongside enduring challenges posed by Iran.
- [Book review: Ian Almond’s “Two Faiths One Banner: When Muslims Marches with Christians Across Europe’s Battlegrounds”](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/ian-almonds-two-faiths-one-banner/): Almond teaches us to appreciate that the political interests of individuals are too complex to fit into Huntington or Said’s grand theories.
- [War in the Middle East and the Role of AI-Powered Cyberattacks](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/war-ai-powered-cyberattacks/): The war may ultimately be remembered for when AI-powered cyberwar became a permanent feature of global conflict.
- [Western Narratives vs. Gulf Realities: Media Framing of the GCC in Times of Regional Conflict](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/western-narratives-vs-gulf-realities/): For effective transregional dialogue, policy analysis in Europe and North America needs to engage more systematically with regional perspectives.
- [The March Echo: From Jalalabad 1989 to Tehran 2026](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/from-jalalabad-1989-to-tehran-2026/): If the U.S. and Israeli operations continue without concrete vision, they may find that instead of liberating Iran, they might open the gates of chaos.
- [Women, Revolution, and Gendered Power in the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/women-revolution-and-gendered-power/): For revolutions to fulfil their promise, women must be imagined not only as agents of resistance but as legitimate holders of power.
- [The Iran War Heralds Russia’s Further Weakening](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/iran-war-heralds-russias-weakening/): Although Russia remains a great power, current events signal the gradual weakening of Moscow as a geopolitical actor.
- [Resistance as Ideology: Why Iran's Regime Will Remain In Power Despite the Ayatollah's Death](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/why-irans-regime-will-remain-in-power/): As long as the Iran's regime is unchallenged by a sizeable opposing ground force, it will likely remain in power.
- [The Iran War and Ankara’s Three Strategic Scenarios](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/the-iran-war-and-ankaras-scenarios/): The Iran war puts Turkey in a peculiar position, posing several challenges. Neutrality may no longer insulate Ankara from the spillover of conflict.
- [Why the United States Should Let Algeria Stay Apart: Distance as Strategic Advantage](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/why-the-us-should-let-algeria/): Algeria is neither ally nor adversary, neither client state nor crisis theatre. Its strategic value lies less in alignment than in calibrated distance.
- [Turkey and Ethiopia’s Growing Alignment](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/turkey-and-ethiopias-growing-alignment/): Eastern Africa has become more geopolitically congested than ever. Israel and the Gulf states’ engagement has heightened the stakes for Turkey. 
- [NRC Reform and American Nuclear Diplomacy in the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/nrc-reform-and-nuclear-diplomacy/): The revision of the NRC aligns with the US’ nuclear energy vision, transcending its domestic sphere and becoming part of foreign policy.
- [Maliki’s Candidacy Sparks US-Iran Proxy Conflict in Iraq](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/malikis-us-iran-proxy-conflict-iraq/): The crisis surrounding Maliki's nomination exposed deep fault lines in Iraq's Shiite leadership and Washington's glaring influence in Iraqi affairs.
- [Israel, Iran, and the Strategic Logic of Nuclear War – Part II](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/israel-iran-and-nuclear-war-part-ii/): Even an asymmetrical nuclear war in which Israel is the sole nuclear power could inflict intolerable harms.
- [Israel, Iran, and the Strategic Logic of Nuclear War – Part I](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/03/israel-iran-and-nuclear-war-part-i/): As designated instruments of a law-based system of deterrence, nuclear weapons can succeed only in their protracted non-use by Israel and Iran.
- [US-Iran Negotiations Beyond Nuclear Issues Could Lead to Failure](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/us-iran-negotiations-could-lead-failure/): As U.S. military deployments rise and war threats loom, Washington enters indirect talks with Iran through regional mediation.
- [The Elevated Role of Turkey in the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/the-elevated-role-of-turkey-in-the-middle-east/): Ankara is cautious about the spillover effects that a regime change in Iran could bring about, but it possesses the instruments to manage instability.
- [Regime Change in Tehran is Critical for Iran and the Broader Region, and Now is the Time](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/regime-change-critical-for-iran-and-region/): The U.S. should maintain that regime change is preferable to the current situation for the Iranian people and for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
- [The Reconfiguration of the Abraham Accords after the Regional War](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/reconfiguration-of-the-abraham-accords/): The war confirmed that security remains the threshold pre-condition for the survival and expansion of the Accords.
- [Syria’s Future Between Fragmentation and Rival Reconstruction](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/syrias-between-fragmentation-and-recon/): Leveraging economic and security incentives to promote gradual stability allows Israel and Syria to extract de-confliction.
- [The Middle East is drifting toward rival security blocs](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/middle-east-drifting-rival-security/): Saudi Arabia is pursuing a more institutionalized model while the UAE’s flexible hedging emphasizes optionality over commitment in security.
- [How Turkey and the Syrian Interim Government Outmanoeuvred the U.S. and the SDF in Syria](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/turkey-syrian-government-us-sdf-syria/): SDF forces have few options but to accept an unfavourable American- and Turkish-backed deal proposed by Damascus. 
- [Trump in the Middle East: Seeking Peace through Deals](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/trump-in-the-middle-east/): Trump’s approach to the Middle East reflects a distinct vision of order rooted in strength, transactional diplomacy, and regional burden-sharing. 
- [Selective Policy Transfer: Why GCC Reformers Borrow from China and Where It Breaks Down](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/why-gcc-borrow-from-china/): China is less a blueprint than a reference point for the GCC. Governance instruments can be adapted, but their effects are mediated by local structures.
- [Extremism in Post-War Syria: The Al-Hol Camp and the Ideological Resurgence of ISIS](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/al-hol-camp-and-the-resurgence-of-isis/): Al-Hol camp is a major security threat. The longer the detained remain abandoned, the more likely the world will once again confront ISIS.
- [A New Gulf Order: How the UAE is Overtaking Saudi Arabia in regional leadership](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/02/how-the-uae-is-overtaking-saudi-arabia/): The diverging paths the UAE and Saudi Arabia are likely to persist. The future of Gulf leadership may become more plural, adaptive and contested.
- [Mitigating Maritime Risks: Mapping Dark Ships from Russia and Iran to India and China](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/mitigating-maritime-risks-dark-ships/): The 2025 Ukrainian strikes show that dark vessels are now at the crossroads of sanctions enforcement, hybrid conflict, and maritime safety.
- [The Future of Rojava: Kurdish Autonomy Under Threat in Syria](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/the-future-of-rojava-kurdish-autonomy/): The conflict in Rojava has changed from a confrontation between the Syrian government and the SDF to a potential nationalist movement.
- [120 Years of Tension: The Conflict Between Constitutionalism and Shari'a-Based Governance in Modern Iranian History](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/constitutionalism-and-sharia-in-iran/): The enduring struggle between secular constitutionalism and religious authority continues to define the Iranian political landscape.
- [Navigating Libya’s Peace Process: How U.S. Operations Diverge from UN Goals](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/navigating-libyas-peace-process-how-u-s-operations-diverge-from-un-goals/): In 2026, the multiplicity of stakeholders suggest a decisive outcome leading to a fully-fledged, durable settlement remains unlikely in Libya.
- [‘Dari’ and the Politics of Cultural and Civilisational Erasure in Afghanistan](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/dari-cultural-erasure-in-afghanistan/): The Taliban seek to marginalise Persian (Dari) in favour of Pashto, which forms part of a broader pattern of cultural suppression in Afghanistan.
- [Niger’s Uranium Gambit is a Warning for UK-MENA Critical Minerals](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/nigers-uranium-gambit/): The UK’s critical minerals diplomacy can learn from both Niger’s colonial uranium sector and the recent effects of great-power competition in Africa.
- [Türkiye’s Quest for the F-35 Goes Beyond Air Superiority](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/turkiyes-quest-for-the-f-35/): For Türkiye, access to the F-35 is not only about technology, but its standing as a full and respected member of the U.S.-led Western alliance.
- [Iran After the Islamic Republic and the Pahlavi Question](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/iran-after-the-islamic-republic/): The question is not if Iran’s regime changes, but if this allows authority to be moulded from abroad rather than being legitimised by Iranians.
- [Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland is a Game-Changer for Middle East Strategy](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/israels-recognition-of-somaliland/): Israel's recognition of Somaliland can lead to the utilization of Berbera for bombers, refuelling, intelligence, and reconnaissance against the Houthis.
- [How to Finally Disarm Hezbollah](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/how-to-finally-disarm-hezbollah/): Hezbollah will be disarmed not in battle, but by the steady removal of conditions that once made its arsenal appear necessary, viable, or legitimate.
- [US–Jordan Defence Ties in Public Discussion](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/us-jordan-defence-ties/): US-Jordan defence ties are perceived as strengthening Jordan’s military capabilities by most, but some view it as increasing vulnerability.
- [Yemen’s Southern Front: Strategic Leverage, Fragmentation, and Regional Risk](https://manaramagazine.org/2026/01/yemens-southern-front/): Yemen’s multidimensional conflict is shaped by local ambitions, foreign patronage, and regional rivalries, intersecting with global interests.
- [Turkey’s Pursuit of New Silk Roads in the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/12/turkeys-pursuit-of-new-silk-roads/): The flourishing ties between Turkey and the GCC are buttressed by Ankara’s development of new trade routes spanning the Middle East.
- [F-35 Politics in a Changing Middle East: The U.S.–Saudi Deal and the Future of Israel’s Air Superiority](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/12/the-us-saudi-deal-and-israel/): The Middle East’s strategic calculations will depend on how the U.S. manages its commitments, Riyadh pursues its ambitions, and Israel adapts.
- [Syria for Sale](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/11/syria-for-sale/): Beneath the surface of Syria's promised recovery lie a bankrupt state, a fractured society, shattered infrastructure, and an ongoing political transition.
- [Electoral Politics and the Search for Legitimacy in Post-War Syria](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/11/electoral-politics-in-syria/): The elections in Syria have faced widespread criticism, but Syrians view participation as preferable to a political vacuum.
- [Leveraging AI as a Soft Power in the GCC](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/11/ai-as-a-soft-power-in-the-gcc/): The GCC’s AI investments represent economic diversification, a redefinition of soft power, geopolitical independence, and state modernization.
- [Syria’s Emerging Grassroots Intelligentsia: From Exile to Influence?](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/10/syrias-emerging-intelligentsia/): For the first time in almost six decades, intellectuals are engaged in an open conversation about their state, society, and shared future in Syria.
- [The Politics of Recognition: Palestine at the Crossroads](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/10/the-politics-of-recognition-palestine/): Recognition signals solidarity, but risks emboldening Hamas. At the same time, it does not in itself establish a sovereign Palestine or create peace.
- [Discontented with Russia, Iran Eyes Greater Cooperation with China](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/10/iran-greater-cooperation-with-china/): Russia’s evolving calculus in its relations with Iran has been rooted in its broader position in a changing geopolitical landscape in the Middle East. 
- [The Nuclear Consequences of Iran’s Domestic Politics](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/09/nuclear-cons-of-irans-dom-politics/): The intertwining of Khamenei’s succession with high-stakes nuclear negotiations contributed to setting Iran on a path of confrontation with the West.
- [Lebanon’s Pledge to Disarm Hezbollah: Reality or Illusion?](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/09/lebanons-pledge-to-disarm-hezbollah/): Real stability will not be achieved by forcing Hezbollah to disarm; it is contingent on creating a state that is more legitimate and capable.
- [Great Powers in Alaska and the “Middlegame” of GCC States in the Ukraine war](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/09/the-middlegame-of-gcc-states/): GCC states demonstrated during the Russia-Ukraine war that small states can develop influential agendas, fitting into great power politics.
- [The Shadow of the “Trigger Mechanism” over Iran](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/the-trigger-mechanism-over-iran/): The threat of using the “Trigger Mechanism” or “Snapback Mechanism” on Iran by the JCPOA's European troika has increased.
- [Why Algeria Should Choose Restraint Over War – The Deterrent Power of Prestige](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/why-algeria-should-choose-restraint/): It is not military intervention but strategic restraint that will best safeguard Algeria’s influence and security.
- [Another Kurdish Resolution Process Underway: Between Hope and Contradictions](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/kurdish-resolution-process-underway/): Is the Kurdish peace process aiming to resolve a decades-old issue or pull together a minimum winning coalition for Erdoğan to maintain his rule?
- [As PKK Lays Down Arms, What About Reintegration?](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/pkk-lays-down-arms-what-about-reinteg/): Turkish military operations and the lack of legal guarantees embed a distrust that could jeopardize the promising peace process with the PKK.
- [How AI Can Help the UAE Sustain Its Post-Grey List AML Reforms](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/ai-can-help-uae-sustain-its-aml-reforms/): AI provides practical tools that can empower UAE financial institutions in their anti-money laundering (AML) efforts.
- [Qatar’s Expanding Mediation in the Russia‑Ukraine War](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/qatars-expanding-mediation-in-the-war/): Qatar's diplomatic ties with conflicting parties, persistence, and carefully targeted incentives continues to make it one of the few credible mediators.
- [The Systemic Consequences of the U.S.’ Attack on Iran](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/the-systemic-consequences-of-the-u-s-attack-on-iran/): The U.S.' attacks on Iran triggered a systemic recalibration, setting the first waves of adjustment, retaliation and realignment in motion.
- [Turkey Moves to Fill the Opening Left by Iran](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/08/turkey-moves-to-fill-the-opening-left-by-iran/): In a new spike of competition and amid Iran’s retreat as a result of Israel’s military pressure Turkey emerges as a prominent power.
- [Missile Defense in the Middle East: A Smart Investment That Must Evolve](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/07/missile-defense-in-the-middle-east-a-smart-investment-that-must-evolve/): Missile defense cooperation between the US and its partners in the Middle East has been one of the success stories of U.S. national security policy.
- [The Crucial Role of Dignity in Rebuilding Syria](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/07/the-crucial-role-of-dignity-in-rebuilding-syria/): This healing process is a necessary prerequisite for Syria to rebuild while reconciling with its past. One way to move forward is by applying dignity.
- [Russia’s Power Play in Post-Western Afghanistan](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/07/russias-power-play-in-post-western-afghanistan/): Instead of fostering stability, Moscow’s recognition of the Taliban in Afghanistan may increase volatility in the region.
- [Jordan and the Security Dilemma: Navigating the Iran–Israel Ceasefire and Public Sentiment](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/07/jordan-and-the-security-dilemma-navigating-the-iran-israel-ceasefire-and-public-sentiment/): Jordan’s challenge will be avoiding being pulled into regional divides while continuing to play its part as a source of stability.
- [Washington, Tel Aviv and Tehran’s Battle to Redraw the Strategic Map of the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/07/washington-tel-aviv-and-tehrans-battle-to-redraw-the-strategic-map-of-the-middle-east/): The Middle East is not on the verge of collapsing, but rather, its strategic map is being redrawn from Tel Aviv, Washington, and Tehran.
- [Assessing the Houthi Threat to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/07/assessing-the-houthi-threat-to-camp-lemonnier-in-djibouti/): The Houthi threat to Camp Lemonnier reflects that non-state actors can challenge even the most hardened military installations.
- [Libya Since Qaddafi: Chaos and the Search for Peace](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/07/libya-since-qaddafi-chaos-and-the-search-for-peace/): A careful reading of Libya Since Qaddafi would help address some of the obstacles that Iran would encounter, should regime change occur.
- [Russia Adjusts Its Posture in the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/06/russia-adjusts-its-posture-in-the-middle-east/): Moscow is reconstituting its position in the Middle East, and local countries’ push for multi-alignment provides space for it to penetrate the region.
- [Iran’s Military Exercises, Nuclear Negotiations and the Regional Order](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/06/irans-military-exercises-nuclear-negotiations-and-the-regional-order/): Iran is stepping into a new and uncertain chapter in its strategic thinking, embracing a strategy focused on conventional deterrence and self-reliance.
- [Israel Stepped in Where the West Did Not](https://manaramagazine.org/2025/06/israel-stepped-in-where-the-west-did/): The war is not merely about Israel’s threat perceptions, but a strategic failure by the West to uphold the post-Cold War order in the Middle East.

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- [2024 #2 – Russian Influence in the Middle East and North Africa](https://manaramagazine.org/2024-2-russian-influence-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/): Issue 2024 #2 tackles Russian influence in the Middle East and North Africa. Part I is available on 19th July.
- [2024 #1 - The Hamas-Israel War and its Regional Implications](https://manaramagazine.org/2024-1-the-hamas-israel-war-and-its-regional-implications/): "The Hamas-Israel War and its Regional Implications" is the first issue of Manara Magazine in 2024, compiled retroactively from our contributors' analysis and commentary pieces. Additional pieces will be published in this dynamic issue as the situation develops on the ground.
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- [2023 #1-2 - Crisis Aversion and Crisis Management in the Middle East and North Africa](https://manaramagazine.org/2023-1-2-crisis-aversion-and-crisis-management-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/): "Crisis Aversion and Crisis Management in the Middle East and North Africa" is the 2023 double issue of Manara Magazine, featuring select cases of political, economic, security and humanitarian challenges facing the region, as well as some of the national and international policy responses that have emerged in response to them.
- ['Files from Exile' Interview Series with Female Leaders from Afghanistan](https://manaramagazine.org/files-from-exile-interview-series/): As a part of the Forum’s Women’s Leadership Initiative, we conducted ‘Files From Exile’, an interview series with prominent female leaders from Afghanistan who continue to lead their communities and stand for the rights of Afghan women despite living in exile.
- [Series on Arab Gulf Security](https://manaramagazine.org/series-on-arab-gulf-security/): Series on Arab Gulf Security Published by the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF) in Cambridge, England. ISSN 2634-3940 (Print) Results See all results Categories Political Analysis Strategy Social Analysis Opinion Interviews Book Reviews Top Posts
- [2022 #4 – 2023: Policy Priorities and Implications for the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2022-4-2023-policy-priorities-and-implications-for-the-middle-east/): Manara’s fourth issue of 2022, “2023: Policy Priorities and Implications for the Middle East,” considers the most important realities, strategic challenges and opportunities in the region in the new year.
- [2020 #1 - The State of the MENA Region: Lessons and Projections](https://manaramagazine.org/2020-1-the-state-of-the-mena-region-lessons-and-projections/): The State of the MENA Region:Lessons and Projections 2020 #1Published on 12th May, 2020 In this issue Published by the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF) in Cambridge, England. ISSN 2634-3940 (Print) Results See all results Categories Political Analysis Strategy Social Analysis Opinion Interviews Book Reviews Top Posts
- [2020 #2 - As Crises Unfold: How the MENA Region Responds](https://manaramagazine.org/2020-2-as-crises-unfold-how-the-mena-region-responds/): ‘As Crises Unfold: How the MENA Region Responds’ – a pressing and prescient topic which, in many ways, is explored in real time. The core of our issue is, of course, focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: one of the biggest and most significant global public health crises of recent years.
- [2020 #3 - The Leadership Issue](https://manaramagazine.org/2020-3-the-leadership-issue/): The issue seeks to show how leadership, or its absence, affects the lives of millions within and beyond national borders across the Middle East and North Africa region. Articles range from high politics in chancelleries in various capitals to the reality for citizens on the ground. Our writers hail from across the globe and include academics, former diplomats, researchers, and students with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- [Upcoming Issue](https://manaramagazine.org/upcoming-issue/): Upcoming Issue Climate Change and the MENA Region: Geopolitics, Preparedness and What’s Still Missing 2024 #3To be published in November 2024 Manara Magazine’s forthcoming issue will highlight the ongoing policymaking challenges that countries most affected by  climate change in the Middle East and North Africa face, as well as analyse case studies of best practices already underway in the region, in addition to the role geopolitics plays in reaching climate milestones. The Editorial Team accepts pitches on topics related to the political and socioeconomic impacts of climate change (both domestic and international), investments and development funding programmes aimed at mitigating […]
- [2022 #3 – Rapprochement and Realignment in the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2022-3-rapprochement-and-realignment-in-the-middle-east/): Manara’s third issue of 2022, “Rapprochement and Realignment in the Middle East,” considers how a diplomatic deluge is reshaping regional politics in real time. Old rivalries between Sunni and Shia and Muslim and Jew, intra-Gulf tensions, and ideological struggles appear to have been set aside in pursuit of shared gains.
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- [Manara Magazine](https://manaramagazine.org/manara-magazine/): About Manara Magazine Manara – “Lighthouse” – aims to foster critical conversations on the Middle East and North Africa region through the voices of established and emerging specialists in politics, international relations, Middle East studies, public policy, sociology and other fields. With its roots in 2018 and its print version formally established in early 2019, Manara Magazine is the publication wing of the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF). Launched by the founding members of MENAF, the purpose of the magazine is to enable MENA-watchers to critically engage with the region’s political, strategic and social developments while providing […]
- [2021 #1 - The MENA Region in Transition](https://manaramagazine.org/2021-1-the-mena-region-in-transition/): If there is one thing that the Middle East and North Africa are not, it is static. The region, often associated with social conservatism and rigid governments, has been and is continuing to experience seismic shifts in its geopolitical reality. It is for this reason that we at Manara chose “transition” as our theme.
- [2021 #2 - 10 Years After the Arab Spring](https://manaramagazine.org/2021-2-10-years-after-the-arab-spring/): Ten years on, traces from the Arab Spring continue to reverberate around the Middle East and North Africa. This issue of Manara Magazine gathers a range of voices from across the region in policy, journalism, and academia who were at the cutting edge of the events of the last decade to reflect upon the past, explain the present, and draw lessons for the future.
- [2021 #3 - The West and the Middle East: The Year Ahead](https://manaramagazine.org/2021-3-the-west-and-the-middle-east-the-year-ahead/): This issue of Manara Magazine gathers the voices of expert commentators, think tank researchers, as well as emerging professionals to paint a picture of Western powers’ actions in the MENA region over the coming year. The “West and the Middle East: The Year Ahead” is the first in a series of two issues on foreign engagement with and influence in the Middle East and North Africa region in Manara Magazine. More information on the upcoming issue can be found on our Submissions page.
- [2021 #4 - The East and the Middle East](https://manaramagazine.org/2021-4-the-east-and-the-middle-east/): The majority of the world’s population today lives in Asia and the continent’s economic significance is only continuing to grow. As the world’s geopolitical center of gravity shifts increasingly eastward, so, too, does the region’s significance for the Middle East and North Africa. “The East and the Middle East” is the second in a series of two issues on foreign engagement with and influence in the Middle East and North Africa in Manara Magazine.
- [2022 #1 - Suffering, Perseverance, and Hope: Minority Voices from the Middle East and North Africa](https://manaramagazine.org/2022-1-suffering-perseverance-and-hope-minority-voices-from-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/): In the tumult of the current affairs news cycle, the perspectives of minorities and marginalised groups rarely get aired. It is for this reason that Manara’s first issue of 2022, ‘Suffering, Perseverance, and Hope: Minority Voices from the Middle East and North Africa’, seeks to bring to light oft-overlooked stories about, and views from, minorities in the Middle East and North Africa.
- [2022 #2 - Economics and Rebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa](https://manaramagazine.org/2022-2-economics-and-rebuilding-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/): If one were to rely merely on media coverage and the day-to-day events of the Middle East and North Africa, one could easily reach the conclusion that conflict and strife are what define the region. However, this remains far from the truth and could serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. This raises the question of how an external actor ought to engage a region that has been primarily viewed through a security lens.
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