‘Reducing Middle East tensions potentially lessens sectarianism and opens doors for women
Two separate developments involving improved relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and women’s sporting rights demonstrate major shifts in how rivalry for leadership of the Muslim world and competition to define Islam in the 21st century is playing out in a world in which Middle Eastern states can no longer depend on the United States coming to their defence.’
James M Dorsey
9 October 2021

‘The Historical Roles of Jihād in Sunnī-Shīʿī Relations’
D. Stewart,
The Journal of the Middle East and Africa Volume 12, 2021 – Issue 2

‘Afghanistan: Escalation of Ethnic Tensions While the US Prepares to Evacuate its Troops’
Diane Villemin
Orient XXI, 11.5.21

‘The Banū Yahrāsan, Political and Sacred Leaders in Ibāḍī Djerba’
V Prevost.
Al-Masāq, Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean
Volume 33, 2021 – Issue 1

The Arab Spring in the Gulf countries – 10 years later

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