Book Review | After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East
By Brandon Marlon
We’ve encountered the toponyms repeatedly in the headlines: Sinjar. Raqqa. Kirkuk. Kobane. Baghuz. But we’ve done so from...
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December 2019
Why Israel’s year of elections has left a foreign policy hangover
By Joshua Krasna
Joshua Krasna is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Programme on the Middle East and a...
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October 2019
Thriving in Adversity: the past and future of Kurdistan in Iraq
By Gary Kent
Combining clear-eyed political analysis with moving reportage, Gary Kent offers a comprehensive survey of both the multiple crises...
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February 2019
Book Review | Sinjar: 14 Days that Saved the Yazidis from Islamic State
By Paul Iddon
Download a PDF version here. Susan Shand’s book is a moving account of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) genocide...
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January 2019
Book Review | Being Kurdish in a Hostile World
By Paul Iddon
Ayub Nuri was born in the wrong place, or so he likes to quip. He comes from Halabja...
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June 2018
Book Review | Days of the Fall: A Reporter's Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars
By Michael Stephens
An eye witness to some of the most violent episodes in the history of both Iraq and Syria,...
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June 2018
The space between the Iraq-Iran border and the Mediterranean Sea today constitutes a single arena of conflict, by Jonathan Spyer
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and a freelance security analyst and correspondent for...
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February 2018
After ISIS Symposium: Where will ISIS regroup? | Ely Karmon
By Ely Karmon
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
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Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Will ISIS now target Egypt? | Michael Barak
By Michael Barak
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
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Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Will the counter-insurgency tactics used to defeat ISIS help it recruit new fighters? | Craig Whiteside
By Craig Whiteside
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
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Autumn 2017
After ISIS Symposium: Why ISIS will survive the loss of its 'Islamic State' | Aymenn al-Tamimi
By Aymenn al-Tamimi
Editorial Introduction to the Symposium: In this symposium, six experts – Kyle Orton, Aymenn al-Tamimi, Craig Whiteside, David...
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Autumn 2017
Mosul: after ISIS, what next?
By Seth Frantzman
Mosul has suffered three jihadist takeovers since 2004. In a detailed mapping of the conflict and its actors,...
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Winter 2016
Returning Jihadis: A Generational Threat
By Peter Neumann
Professor Peter Neumann’s new book Radicalised: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West, has been described as...
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Autumn 2016
Can Israel remain secure in a world of Arab disintegration, American retreat, and Iranian ambition?
By Calev Ben-Dor
In a comprehensive and clear-sighted survey Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor assesses the implications of regional disintegration for...
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Spring 2016
Six steps to defeat ISIS
By Giora Eiland
Giora Eiland spoke to Fathom about six steps the coalition must take to defeat ISIS: cooperating with Russia,...
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Autumn 2015
Debating Michael Walzer’s 'Islamism and the Left'
By Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and one of...
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Summer 2015
Terrorism in cyberspace
By Gabriel Weimann
Professor Gabriel Weimann spoke to a Fathom Forum about his book Terrorism in Cyberspace: The Next Generation. The...
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Summer 2015
JN-BICOM 2015 Conference: Collapse of Arab states and the rise of ISIL
By BICOM
A panel discussion on the collapse of Arab states and the rise of ISIL at the UK/Israel Shared Strategic...
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Summer 2015
The Resistible Rise of Iran: an Interview with Michael Ledeen
By Ben Cohen
Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen spoke with the historian and analyst Michael Ledeen about US foreign policy towards...
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Winter 2015
IS and the incoherence of Western policy
By Jonathan Spyer
The West wants to destroy IS but it has neither allies on the ground nor a grasp of...
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Autumn 2014
Disaster in the Levant: the Syrian Civil War in its fourth year
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is one of the few policy experts to regularly visit the front lines in Syria. In...
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Spring 2014
The ISIS-Kurdish War
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer, a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specialising in the areas of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria...
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Summer 2014
The Journey of the Kurds
By Gary Kent
The journey of Iraqi Kurdistan from dictatorship to democracy has been remarkable. Gary Kent reports on the transformation...
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Spring 2014
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