Insights

In Eastern societies, where customs and traditions intertwine with religious and social perceptions, women with disabilities or congenital conditions face compounded challenges that extend beyond physical or biological impairment to social and psychological exclusion. Discrimination stems not only from limited...

Farah Darwish For decades, Syrian intellectuals and artists have lived under a strained and often hostile relationship with authority. Culture in Syria has rarely been just an act of creativity; it has often become a political battlefield. The cost of...

For more than a decade, thousands of Syrian women have found themselves embarking on a forced journey into the unknown, after the war compelled them to leave their homeland. Between the hardship of exile and the harshness of beginning anew,...

Governments are often portrayed as mere façades, while the state itself is said to be run by hidden networks of bureaucrats and military men. This image, though widespread, is exaggerated. Political science instead offers the concept of the “deep state”...

The rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in 2002 was a decisive moment in understanding the balance of power within Turkey and the positioning of influential actors at home. Many researchers argue that the term “deep...

The announcement of a new “Joint Repatriation Cell” between the United States and its partners in northeast Syria has sparked wide debate over its feasibility and implications. At the centre of this debate lie the sprawling al-Hol and Roj camps,...

The so-called Deep State in the United States has intervened in numerous legal and political cases, involving controversial events and transformations that sparked suspicions about the influence of secret, undeclared powers on American policies and interests. Chief among these is...

In an unstable economic environment, exchange rate risks have become a daily concern, with Syrians facing sharp fluctuations in the value of the dollar and other foreign currencies against the pound. The gap between the official rate set by the...

The concept of the deep state is one of the most controversial ideas in political science and international relations. It refers to informal networks of influence that operate behind the scenes and possess the ability to affect decision-making, whether through...

As 2026 approaches, hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan face the specter of hunger following the United Nations World Food Programme’s announcement that it will cease the food assistance on which they rely to secure their basic needs....