On June 10, 2025, General Michael Langley, Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), issued a sobering assessment before the House Armed Services Committee. [i] While affirming that Camp Lemonnier ...

In the wake of Midnight Hammer and Rising Lion, the Islamic Republic did not collapse as many hastily predicted. Bruised but far from broken, Tehran will grow more paranoid, more calculating, and ...

Regime change is sometimes simple but managing its consequences is always messy. As cerebral a president as Barrack Obama was, he ruefully acknowledged as much when he told Fox News correspondent ...

Between December 2024 and March 2025, Iran conducted one of its most robust military exercises in decades. Eqtedar (authority or power) and Zulfiqar (sword of revered fourth Islamic caliphate and ...

Russia’s posture in the Middle East has been transformed–its major partners and allies have been humbled. It is now very much in a transitory stage, adjusting to new challenges and opportunities on ...

“The Hamas-Israel War and its Regional Implications” is the first issue of Manara Magazine in 2024. As a dynamic online issue, published in Manara Magazine since the outbreak of the Hamas-Israel war ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Roby C. Barrett specializes in Gulf and regional security issues. He is a former Foreign Service Officer with a background in intelligence and special operations. A graduate of the Foreign Service ...

To permit the widest possible range of submissions, the ‘Middle East’ is defined broadly as including all Arab League states, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and Turkey. Pitches will be considered based on ...

The shift dialing back of granting LGR in Egypt’s judiciary is symptomatic of a steady rise in the influence of Al-Azhar in Egyptian politics and policies. For example, in 2003, a medical committee ...