Trevor Mostyn is a Lecturer in Middle East History at the University of Oxford teaching a course on “Islam in the Modern World” Writing a book on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), I introduced myself to the town councillors of Fujairah in my best classical Arabic. Delighted, they promptly closed down their offices and produced…
Jelle J P Wouters, Erik de Maaker, Chencho Dorji, Suraj Bhattarai, & Nithil Dennis Heritage studies and projects in Asia have overwhelmingly focused on sedentary populations, valley civilisations, ancient cities, and monumental religious and political sites. These have been affirmed as historical bearers of material and cultural order, progress, enlightenment, and civilisation, and therefore worthy…
Charles J Sullivan, PhD is a scholar on Central Asia and the author of Leaders of the Nation: Kazakhstan during the Twilight of the Nazarbayev Era and the Russo-Ukrainian War Kazakhstan is a developing country with substantial promise. It is a major oil exporter and its territory holds important rare earth deposits. Kazakhstan’s population of…
Professor Aries A Arugay is Coordinator of the Philippine Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Michael T Tiu Jr is Assistant Professor at the latter specialising in international criminal and human rights law The International Criminal Court’s warrant of…
Most recently a Director of VanEck in New York, Tom Butcher has travelled extensively, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. As it is now, back in the mid ‘80s, the Isan region of Thailand’s northeast was poor. But I loved it not only for the access it offered to the Mekong, but also for the…
Richard Walker is Professor of Tectonics at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford. He leads the Active Tectonics and Earthquakes Research Group, and is the Oxford lead of the UK Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics. The desert town of Tabas-e-Golshan, eastern Iran, offers welcome respite from the heat…
William H. Wiley is the Executive Director of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability. Â Prior to the establishment of the CIJA, he served with the Canadian war crimes programme, the United Nations tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and at the Iraqi High Tribunal during the trials of Saddam…
Eve Register is a Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and member of NATO Defence Education Enhancement Programme’s Global Threats Advisory Group Hydropower is currently the world’s largest renewable energy source and accounts for over half of renewable electricity production globally. Dam construction skyrocketed in the late 1970s, driven by the reliability and cost-effectiveness of these…
Nadia’s Initiative is a nonprofit organization founded in 2018 by Nadia Murad that advocates for survivors of sexual violence and aims to rebuild communities in crisis. In August 2014, ISIS surrounded the quiet Yazidi farming village of Kocho in Sinjar as part of an effort to ethnically cleanse Yazidis from Iraq. In the week leading…
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey is an analyst and journalist, particularly focused on geopolitical and economic issues in the Gulf region, Middle East and North Africa Oman often flies under the radar as an understated actor in the Middle East, especially compared to its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) neighbours such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and…
