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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

No matter how the current escalation between Israel and Iran ends, it has already raised serious questions among the Iranian elite.[i] Tehran is facing significant security challenges that have ...

Iran’s broader strategy over the years has been to use a network of armed non-state groups.[vi] It has fortified its influence across the Levant and in the Gulf by supporting groups like Hezbollah in ...

Iraq’s struggle to assert its sovereignty is increasingly complicated by its entanglements with Iran and Turkey and a persistent terrorist threat. As these regional powers assert their influence, ...

It has been reported that failure to reach the objectives of the Paris Agreement may cause irreversible damages, making the Earth utterly inhospitable for human beings in the long run. At the same ...

Since the dawn of time the Iraqi people have lived in an arid land where winds carry scorching heat and water is scarce. The Iraqis invented sophisticated irrigation systems, taming the waters of the ...