Ba'athism
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Recent papers in Ba'athism
A look at the roots and failures of Ba'athism, once perhaps the best antidote to Islamism in the Middle East. Only Turkey's Ba'ath-like party will be left standing by summer's end.
Irak Türkmenleri denildiği zaman hafızamızda ilk olarak Kerkük ve Musul canlanır. Fakat Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun dağılmasından sonra maalesef Türkler için hüznün ve acının adeta merkezi haline gelmiştir. Bu acılar dokunaklı bir şekilde... more
During the onslaught of the Islamic caliphate on Kobanî, Syria, media outlets across the globe broadcast pictures of brave and often unveiled Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a quintessentially male... more
Nasserism is alive. The Pan-Arabic vision may have another chance even as Islamists overrun the Middle East. a brief look at the history, the lost opportunity and the reason for hope.
Iraq's databases make profiling and tracking of individuals a simple matter. If you are named, or blacklisted, in any one of Iraq’s parallel sets of databases you are likely to be seized at this point or some time later depending on... more
With the deadly ISIS advance, the sudden rousing of Shia militias and the threat of Kurdish secession, Iraq faces a host of deep-seated and intractable problems. Together, these events raise a number of serious questions, not just for... more
Since the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces in 2003, the Iraqi people have not only suffered a devastating death toll and witnessed the erosion of every aspect of their civil infrastructure, they have also endured an extraordinary... more
From the early 1970s until 2011, the Syrian shrine town of Sayyida Zaynab flourished as a minor centre of Shiʿi learning. It predominantly served Iraqi Shiʿi refugees, but also temporary visitors from Iran and the Gulf countries. The... more
By 2011, the White House, the Maliki government, and the revanchist opponents of the Shia regime had all effectively accepted the failure of multiple national reconciliation and reconstruction programs in order to move forward with their... more
This chapter offers a bold critique of the notion that Baathist rule in Iraq was a product of a culture of authoritarianism in Iraq. It is important to acknowledge from the start that while this chapter does offer a more nuanced view of... more
The evolution of the Syrian Ba'th over the course of the ongoing Syrian conflict.
PREVIEW ONLY - READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no2.06 This article re-examines the dominant scholarly perception that Christian support for Arab Nationalist regimes is primarily a product of fear of... more
Scholarly literature highlights the systematic actions taken in the modern Middle East to destroy the Kurdish language. With a primary focus on Turkey, scholars have described this process as a policy of linguicide, or language genocide,... more
Black-clad fighters, suffering refugees and Western warplanes overhead – these are the mainstays of Iraq and Syria coverage as the Islamic State (IS) continues its campaign. Notably absent from debates is how today’s Iraq and Syria... more