Arhama Siddiqa
Issue Brief on “Covid in the Camps: Challenges to Refugees in the Middle East”
Conflicts and wars have become trademarks of the modern Middle East. The disputes have led to thousands of people fleeing their homes and taking...
Issue Brief on “COVID 19 and Repatriation of Pakistani Workers”
It is hard to overestimate the role of migrant labor in the Gulf, where jobs in construction, sanitation and transportation are primarily undertaken by...
Issue Brief on “Situation in Yemen: Caught Between Conflict and The Corona Virus”
March 22, 2020 marked five years since the conflict in Yemen began. The country has been in turmoil since 2015, when Iran-backed Houthi militia...
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Issue Brief on “Trump’s Peace Plan: Pathway To Privation”
President Trump unveiled his so-called “Deal of the Century” on January 28, 2020 to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Issue Brief on “Protests in Iraq: An Assessment”
In October 2019, large-scale protests erupted across Iraq. Tens of thousands of people, angry over corruption, maladministration and rising unemployment (which reached 8% in...
Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy,...
The Middle Eastern region challenges simple depictions and the difficulties that exist here are, in fact, susceptible to simple solutions. The reader comes away...
Issue Brief on “Indian Atrocities in IOK: Is India Following Israeli Script?”
On August 05, 2019, in what Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called “a historic decision”, the Government of India unilaterally abolished Article 370 and...
Report – Roundtable “Participants of Trilateral (Afghanistan, China, Pakistan) Diplomatic Workshop”
The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) hosted a roundtable on October 31, 2019 with participants of the Trilateral Diplomatic Workshop at the Foreign...
Issue Brief on “Syrian Golan Heights: A Politcal Chimera”
“President Trump has just made history...he did it again.”, declared a buoyant Israeli Prime Minister on March 21 after the United States’ President, Donald...