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Hakim Khatib

The author is a political scientist who lectures on politics, Middle East culture, intercultural communication and journalism at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences and Phillips University Marburg, and is the editor-in-chief of the Mashreq Politics & Culture Journal.
EVACUEES from a rebel-held area of Aleppo carry mattresses they received in the Kamouneh camp in Syria last month

Aleppo: Meltdown of humanity

Aleppo, as it was before the civil war, has become a memory.

JANUARY 10, 2017
Nour al-Din al-Zinki ‏Syrian rebel group

How many foreign fighters are there in Syria?

While some regions in the world witnessed a significant increase in the number of foreign fighters, some other regions witnessed a relative stagnation.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016
A MAN walks past a graffiti of verses from the Koran at downtown in Cairo

The controversy of blasphemy in Egypt

“Blasphemy is a fascist law. It is a legacy of the Spanish Inquisition courts.”

JANUARY 9, 2016

What’s Syrian about the Syrian war?

While in the media we always hear “the Syrian conflict,” “Syrian crisis” or “Syrian war,” I wonder what makes this war so Syrian.

NOVEMBER 2, 2015
MEN CARRY casualties from a damaged site hit by missiles fired by Syrian government forces on a busy marketplace in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria on October 30.

Syria looks set to become a Sunni-flavored Iran

AUGUST 19, 2015
An Islamic State fighter carries the group’s flag in Raqqa, north-central Syria.

ISIS: A wake-up call for Muslims all over the world

If ISIS members are not Islamic and not true Muslims, then what are they?

JULY 2, 2015
ISIS threatens to 'uproot the Jewish state'

The true role of religion in the Middle East

While religion is an important factor in the Middle East, it’s not the whole story.

JUNE 30, 2015
Map of Middle East