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21st November 2022

What’s Next for Children in IS-affiliated Families from Iraq...

Joana Cook
As the Iraqi government repatriates IS-affiliated families from al-Hol camp in Syria, Joana Cook looks at what’s next for the children who grew up und...
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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour

Research report

26th October 2022

The Pitfalls of Saudi Arabia’s Security-Centric Strategy in ...

Ahmed Nagi
Saudi Arabia’s security is contingent on Yemen’s stability and economic prosperity. As such, Riyadh should help revive Yemen’s moribund economy, in bo...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Borderlands

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28th September 2022

Storytelling, Memory and Momentum: Iraq’s Tishreen Movement...

Ruba Ali Al-Hassani
Despite observers claiming that Iraq’s Tishreen protest movement has been coerced into silence, this blog argues that it maintains mobilisation moment...
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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance

Research report

28th September 2022

Youth Disrupted: Impact of Conflict and Violent Extremism on...

Alex Fischer, Haid Haid, James Khalil
This study explores the impact of a decade of conflict and violent extremism on adolescents in the northeast Syrian governorates of Raqqa and Deir ez-...
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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism Governance

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21st September 2022

Reckless Abandon: Why Tunisia Can No Longer Delay a Border F...

Hamza Meddeb
Tunisia’s planned free trade zone in Ben Guerdane has stalled while similar projects in Libya have advanced. If Tunisian authorities move quickly to r...
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Tunisia Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Governance Borderlands

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15th September 2022

Saudi Arabia’s Split-Image Approach to Salafism

Ahmed Nagi
The case of the Salafi groups underscores the complex evolution of cross-border exchange of religious ideas, with external powers able to grow influen...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Governance Borderlands

Blog

15th September 2022

In the Wake of the Military Coup, Sudan’s Rebel Groups Lever...

When the military launched a coup against the civilian government in October 2021, some of the rebel leaders sided with the country’s generals, rather...
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Middle East and North Africa Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

10th August 2022

How the Captagon Trade Impacts Border Communities in Lebanon...

Lina Khatib
Any policy designed to counter the growing Captagon trade must take into account its impact on local border communities.
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies

Article

10th August 2022

Border Nation: The Reshaping of the Syrian-Turkish Borderlan...

Armenak Tokmajyan, Kheder Khaddour
After a decade of civil war, Syria’s border with Turkey is divided. Yet long-term stability will require a peace agreement that treats the border as a...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Governance Conflict Response Borderlands

Blog

29th July 2022

The Iraqi Politics of Memory and Victimhood

Inna Rudolf, Ela Khaled
This post highlights the ways in which different groups invoke the wrongs afflicted onto their respective communities to gain leverage over the domina...
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Middle East and North Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance

Blog

22nd July 2022

Liars, Guns, and Money

Michael Young
In this interview, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center’s non-resident scholar Armenak Tokmajyan talks about Sarmada, Syria’s border with Turke...
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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Event

20th July 2022

Virtual Launch Event: Border Towns, Market and Conflict

As part of the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) program, the X-Border Local Research Network held a report launch event to ex...
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Syria Sudan Southeast Asia South Sudan South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Pakistan North Africa Middle East and North Africa Middle East Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Afghanistan Governance Conflict Response Borderlands

Research report

23rd June 2022

Border Towns, Markets and Conflict

This report aims to amplify a grounded understanding of the everyday reality of communities in fragile border areas, and how conflict shapes their liv...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

8th June 2022

Moving Medicine in Iraq: the Political Economy of the Pharma...

Renad Mansour, Omar Sirri
Poor infrastructure and even poorer governance is a critical part of the story of healthcare in Iraq, but so too is the complex issue of the movement ...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Organised Crime Governance Conflict Economies

Publication

20th May 2022

XCEPT Research on Sudan: Border Conflict and Struggle for De...

After decades of autocratic rule, Sudan appeared poised for a democratic transition after the ouster in 2019 of former President Omar al-Bashir. In la...
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Middle East and North Africa Governance Borderlands

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