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Arhama Siddiqa


Research Fellow

Areas of Research:

Middle East and North Africa

Ms. Arhama Siddiqa is currently working as a Research Fellow at Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) and is currently pursuing her PhD in International Relations from Quaid-e-Azam University. She graduated from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 2013 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Political Science and Economics and went on to complete an MA in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick in 2014. In 2017 she was awarded the Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, during which she was based at Conciliation Resources in the United Kingdom. She has also written for various publications including The Express Tribune, South Asian Voices, Middle East Monitor, Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera Centre for Studies. She has also published in a number of Higher Education Commission verified journals and in 2024, she was also a paper presenter in the Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge University, UK.

Mail arhama.siddiqa@issi.org.pk

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Issue Brief on “Yemen-UAE: Sparring Over Socotra”

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Issue Brief on “Iran Versus Israel: The Shadow War in Syria”

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Issue Brief on “The Escalating Crisis in Syria”

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Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on...

The Middle East is a region of geopolitical intricacies which has perplexed western foreign policy makers for decades. In his book, Inside the Middle...

Issue Brief on “Explicit Overtures: The Changing Face of Saudi-Israel Relations”

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Issue Brief on “Munich Security Conference 2018: Middle East Perspectives”

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Issue Brief on “Yemen: A War Within a War”

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Issue Brief on “Mike Pence’s Trip to the Middle East: Cementing Alliances”

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Issue Brief on “Netanyahu’s India Visit: Coming Out of the Closet”

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