A key presidential election will take place in Iran this Friday 14th of June. The last Presidential elections were held in 2009 and set themselves up…
Author: Itxaso Domínguez
Itxaso Domínguez
Spanish idealist expert in international relations (or at least tries to be), and particularly in Middle East affairs.
You know I believe Palestinian reconciliation is vital if Palestinian politicians really want to create momentum for the Palestinian cause. Every once in a while, if…
It seems May is one good month for uprisings… Maybe it´s the hot weather, maybe it´s the hormones in the Spring, maybe it´s the need to…
Obsessing over the Syrian conflict, as I usually tend to do. I figured it might be useful to compile the main reasons why the all-out war…
I was about to write an article on April 20 Iraq´s local elections, the country´s first vote since US troops left for good in December 2011,…
For months, the Syrian opposition has been accusing Hezbollah of waging a war against the Syrian people. Reports increasingly acknowledge the presence of Lebanese fighters, fighting…
Months ago, an article in L’Orient-Le Jour renewed my hopes of a League of Arab States’ (aka LAS) favorable evolution. Last January, LAS SG Nabil Al-Arabi,…
Anyone out there unaware of Assad’s latest mischief? Really? Well, on the occasion of Syria’s Independence Day, the country’s stiff President gave an interview to the…
Nearly no one liked him at home. He was hailed as a great political figure abroad, though. He spent all his life looking forward to becoming…
On the occasion of the start of the Kurdish new year and before hundred of thousands of feverish supporters, imprisoned PKK (Kurdistan Worker Party, branded by…