1.12.2019. “It’s a little hard to grasp how a doctoral candidate at Princeton can acquire a Twitter following of nearly 50,000 and be regarded as such an authority by publications from The Forward to Foreign Policy. To get a measure of that, I asked a couple of Daily contributors for their sense of Tsurkov’s contribution to our understanding […]

Elizabeth Tsrukov 27.11. 2019. who exactly are the Syrian men fighting on Turkey’s behalf in Syria? I have maintained regular contact with some of these fighters since as early as 2014. Most are Sunni Arabs, displaced from their homes in the course of the war.  

Despite this week’s meeting of Putin, Erdogan, and Rouhani, there is no good news in the last redoubt of the Syrian revolt.

Living in conditions that are difficult and being surrounded by people who are highly radical — is that conducive to deradicalization?” said Elizabeth Tsurkov, a fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking who researches Syria and Iraq, and who has visited the camp twice recently

The education minister supports language teaching, and the opponents warn against “Islamization of schools.” Meanwhile, thousands of Muslims learn Arabic in mosques without supervision

In Iraq, Algeria and even Saudi Arabia, women are elected to the local authorities, and in Tunisia, a fifth of the mayors are actually the first. revolution? The feminists are not sure

Writing for Foreign Policy, John Judis discusses AIPAC’s recent failure to push the Iran sanctions bill through Congress, describing the history of AIPAC and the lobby’s growing weaknesses, which runs deeper than the mere shortcomings of its ground game.

With international consensus firmly against Israeli policies across the Green Line, Jodi Rudoren walks through the West Bank industrial zones in the The New York Times. See Molad's report on Israel's standing in the world and the question of isolation here.