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SFM Promotional Video
Jan 2, 2019
SFM Promotional Video
Jan 2, 2019

Watch the Striking from the Margins Promotional Video explaining what the research project is all about

Jan 2, 2019
Dr Harith Hasan on Iraq after the elections
Nov 13, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan on Iraq after the elections
Nov 13, 2018

Dr Hasan's talk focuses on the evolution of the political role of Shia religious authority in Iraq and the overall transformation in the relations between the state and religious actors. It highlights the impact of state weakness, intra-Shia rivalries and recent political changes

Nov 13, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Hostage to all?
Nov 13, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Hostage to all?
Nov 13, 2018

‘Adel ‘Abdul-Mahdi was a compromise candidate as prime minister, that’s his major problem

Nov 13, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian: The Post-Secular Construct in Syria
Nov 7, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian: The Post-Secular Construct in Syria
Nov 7, 2018

Dr Harout Akdedian presented his talk “The Post-Secular Construct in Syria: From Neo-Liberalism to Systemic Collapse - The role of religion in state-society relations and the reconfiguration of the public domain” during the CEU Center for Religous Studies PhD seminar series

Nov 7, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Religious Leaders and the Sunni- Shia Divide in the Middle East
Oct 10, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Religious Leaders and the Sunni- Shia Divide in the Middle East
Oct 10, 2018

Dr Harith Hasan on religious leaders in the Middle East and how the differences between the Sunni and the Shia divide this turbulent region. The chapter is part of the Atlantic Council’s book “Islam and Human Rights: Key Issues for Our Times”

Oct 10, 2018
Prof Nadia Al-Bagdadi: Verschleierte Wirklichkeiten
Oct 5, 2018
Prof Nadia Al-Bagdadi: Verschleierte Wirklichkeiten
Oct 5, 2018

Prof Al-Bagdadi im Streitgespräch mit Dr Gudrun Harrer: Rechtlose unterdrückte Wesen oder selbstbewusste streitbare Kopftuchträgerinnen: Am Thema Frauen wird die ganze Kontroverse zwischen „Islam und dem Westen“ besonders gern abgearbeitet. In Österreich erklärt der Chef der Glaubensgemeinschaft das Kopftuch zum islamischen Gebot, im Iran demonstrieren sogar vereinzelt Tschadorträgerinnen gegen den Bedeckungszwang

Oct 5, 2018
Board Member Bassma Kodmani: Europe is the Key Player in Syria
Oct 4, 2018
Board Member Bassma Kodmani: Europe is the Key Player in Syria
Oct 4, 2018

More than any player, including Russia with its boots on the ground, the European Union today holds the key to reintegrating Syria into the international fold or denying the Assad regime a victory and maintaining its isolation. At this very moment the European Union is arguably the most important player in determining the future direction for Syria. It does not need to ask for a place at the table, rather it is in a position to shape the outcome of the conflict

Oct 4, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: The Basra Exception
Sep 19, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: The Basra Exception
Sep 19, 2018

Protests in the governorate are stepping away from sectarianism toward a new form of political mobilization

Sep 19, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian at University of Utrecht Workshop on Syira
Sep 16, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian at University of Utrecht Workshop on Syira
Sep 16, 2018

Dr Harout Akdedian presented his working paper ‘On Violence and Radical Theology in the Syrian War: The Instrumentality of Exclusionary Practices and Spectacular Violence’ which analyzes the instrumentality of spectacular violence and exclusionary practices as exhibited by radicalized groups in Syria

Sep 16, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian: Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia
Sep 15, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian: Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia
Sep 15, 2018

Dr Harout Akdedian contributed a chapter on Syria to the recently released book which provides fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region.

Sep 15, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: What should Iraq's government do to address public anger?
Sep 4, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: What should Iraq's government do to address public anger?
Sep 4, 2018

An IMF-dictated liberalisation will not solve Iraq's problems. The country needs a 'third way'

Sep 4, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan at Carnegie MEC on how Iraqi protests will affect the government forming process
Aug 2, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan at Carnegie MEC on how Iraqi protests will affect the government forming process
Aug 2, 2018

A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security

Aug 2, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Beyond Security: Stabilization, Governance, and Socioeconomic Challenges in Iraq
Jul 18, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Beyond Security: Stabilization, Governance, and Socioeconomic Challenges in Iraq
Jul 18, 2018

As unrest over the Iraqi government’s failure to provide essential services grips southern Iraq, the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East is offering insight and analysis beyond the headlines. In a new issue brief, Beyond Security: Stabilization, Governance, and Socioeconomic Challenges in Iraq, Dr. Harith Hasan explores the ways in which economic and social issues play into Iraq’s instability and the genesis of violent conflict.

Jul 18, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian: State Formation and Social Conflict in Syria: Causalities, Unintended Consequences, and Analytical Trajectories
Jun 1, 2018
Dr Harout Akdedian: State Formation and Social Conflict in Syria: Causalities, Unintended Consequences, and Analytical Trajectories
Jun 1, 2018

Scholars and commentators grappling with causalities and processes leading to armed conflict in Syria have touched on an array of factors and catalysts of social conflict and violence.

Jun 1, 2018
SFM Roundtable at MESA Annual Meeting: November 16, 2018
May 18, 2018
SFM Roundtable at MESA Annual Meeting: November 16, 2018
May 18, 2018

Round Table “Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East”

May 18, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Sectarianism and the Iraqi Election
May 11, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: Sectarianism and the Iraqi Election
May 11, 2018

In 2010, a coalition called al-Iraqiyya, led by a secular Shi’a, Ayad Allawi, and composed of mostly Sunni parties, won a plurality in the Iraqi election. The coalition, however, did not secure the majority necessary to form the government. Instead, a grand Shi’a coalition formed after the election, the National Alliance, gained the majority. Former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki secured his second term in office as the head of “national unity” government, a euphemism for a government distributing its ministerial positions mainly based on ethnic and sectarian affiliation. When negotiations began about al-Iraqiyya’s positions in the government, a controversy ensued regarding whether it should be considered a Sunni coalition and given the “Sunni share” of positions, or continue to be identified, as its leader wanted, as a cross-sectarian coalition, an identification that was difficult to quantify in the ethno-sectarian formula of power sharing. In the end, the Sunni parties in the coalition took off the “cross-sectarian” hat and resigned themselves to recognizing their “Sunnism” in order to receive their share of power.

May 11, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: From Secularization to Identity Politics: The Reconstitution of Shiʻi Religious Authority in Iraq
May 1, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: From Secularization to Identity Politics: The Reconstitution of Shiʻi Religious Authority in Iraq
May 1, 2018

In June 2014, the Sunni “jihadi” group that called itself the Islamic State (IS) took over Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, in a shockingly easy operation. As the Iraqi army collapsed and its troops deserted, IS rapidly marched southward threatening to invade Baghdad and the Shiʿi shrine cities

May 1, 2018
INTERVIEW: Dr Renad Mansour on Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
Feb 8, 2018
INTERVIEW: Dr Renad Mansour on Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
Feb 8, 2018

Dr Renad Mansour analyses the political and economic dilemmas of mediation, reconciliation, and state-building in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan in an interview with the Hungarian daily Népszava

 

Feb 8, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: The ‘formal’ Marjaʿ - Shiʿi clerical authority and the state in post-2003 Iraq
Feb 2, 2018
Dr Harith Hasan: The ‘formal’ Marjaʿ - Shiʿi clerical authority and the state in post-2003 Iraq
Feb 2, 2018

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the name of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Grand Shiʿi cleric, has come to prominence. Sistani emerged as a key player in the processes that constituted and sustained the post-2003 Iraqi political order, as manifested in key events such as the writing of constitution or the mobilization against the Islamic State

Feb 2, 2018
Gender and Islam Series: Queer Muslims in Europe
Dec 18, 2017
Gender and Islam Series: Queer Muslims in Europe
Dec 18, 2017

SFM Co-Director Prof Nadia Al-Bagdadi is the editor of "Queer Muslims in Europe", a book published by I.B. Tauris as part of their "Gender and Islam Series"

Dec 18, 2017
SFM at Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue Vienna
Dec 15, 2017
SFM at Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue Vienna
Dec 15, 2017

The SFM Research Project presented its current research findings to the audience of distinguished experts on the Middle East from an academic, political and diplomatic background and engaged in a stimulating debate on which margins are currently striking in the Middle East

Dec 15, 2017
Prof Aziz Al-Azmeh: Sectarianism and Antisectarianism
Dec 1, 2017
Prof Aziz Al-Azmeh: Sectarianism and Antisectarianism
Dec 1, 2017

Prof Aziz Al-Azmeh delivered a Keynote Speech at Rice University and University of Houston's Conference on Anti-Sectarianism on December 1, 2018

Dec 1, 2017
Dr Harith Hasan: The end of the ethnosectarian paradigm of power sharing in Iraq
Oct 29, 2017
Dr Harith Hasan: The end of the ethnosectarian paradigm of power sharing in Iraq
Oct 29, 2017

This article written in Arabic and published by Alarabi al-Jadid, argued that the war against ISIS and the events that followed the Kurdish independence referendum were parts of a broader dynamic in which a new form of Shi’a-dominated nationalism is emerging

Oct 29, 2017
Dr Harith Hasan: Intra-Kurdish Division and Abadi’s Options
Oct 18, 2017
Dr Harith Hasan: Intra-Kurdish Division and Abadi’s Options
Oct 18, 2017

In the wake of the September 25 referendum in Kurdistan, the Iraqi government announced on October 15 that it began a military deployment to reestablish authority in Kirkuk in coordination with the Peshmerga.

Oct 18, 2017
Dr Harith Hasan: After the Referendum - Negotiation Is Still Possible
Sep 28, 2017
Dr Harith Hasan: After the Referendum - Negotiation Is Still Possible
Sep 28, 2017

Monday’s referendum in Kurdistan resulted in a situation whereby all parties lack good options. To be sure, Masoud Barzani, the leader of Kurdistan Region Government (KRG), achieved some immediate political gains. He managed to mobilize his base by calling for and conducting the referendum despite international objections.

Sep 28, 2017
التجربة التوافقية في العراق: النظرية والتطبيق والنتائج
Sep 12, 2017
التجربة التوافقية في العراق: النظرية والتطبيق والنتائج
Sep 12, 2017

تتنــاول هذه الدراســة تجربة اعتمــاد نظام الديمقراطية التوافقية فــي العراق بعد عام 2003 ، وهــي تنطلــق مــن محاولــة فهــم النظــام التوافقــي واألســس النظريــة التــي قــام عليهــا، ّ والخصائــص التــي تمي ّ ــزه من األنظمــة الديمقراطيــة األخرى، ومن ثــم مقارنة ذلــك بالنظام ّ الذي تم اعتماده في العراق والمدى الذي تنطبق عليه صفة التوافقية.

Sep 12, 2017
 بين التاريخ والاستكانة للقدر: أزمات العرب واستعماء العقل
May 31, 2017
بين التاريخ والاستكانة للقدر: أزمات العرب واستعماء العقل
May 31, 2017

عزيز العظمة

بين التاريخ والاستكانة للقدر أزمات العرب واستعماء العقل

May 31, 2017
داعش الغربي وداعش العربي : تعليق على أطروحة اوليفيه روا
May 31, 2017
داعش الغربي وداعش العربي : تعليق على أطروحة اوليفيه روا
May 31, 2017

حارث حسن

May 31, 2017
May 25, 2017
Prof Aziz Al-Azmeh and Dr Michael Ignatieff on the Failures of Globalization
May 25, 2017

Prof Aziz Al-Azmeh and Dr Michael Ignatieff discuss life on the margins of political culture in Europe and the Middle East from the vantage point of Central European University

May 25, 2017
May 25, 2017
Dr Harout Akdedian's Opinion Piece on Sykes-Picot
May 25, 2017
  1. PATEL, David: Myths related to Sykes-Picot

  2. PURSLEY, Sara: Iraq's Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State

May 25, 2017

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