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Islamic Finance
By Alexander Leo Phillips Public confidence in the banking sector has been significantly shaken over recent years. Given the turmoil caused by the global financial crisis, the depression and the...
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A Special Relationship?
By Alexander Leo Phillips Originally coined by Winston Churchill in 1946, the ‘Special Relationship’ between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America...
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by Michelle Brooks In a recent article for BBC News MiddleEast, Jon Donnison reports on the Palestinian women who hand-sew Jewish kippot to be sold in the markets of Jerusalem. Kippot are the small...
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Geographical Location: Iran’s Trump Card
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No More Water by 2025?
by Magali Bonne-Moreau Experts are warning that Yemenis living in the capital city, Sana’a, may no longer have access to water by 2025. Like many Middle Eastern countries, Yemen is an arid country that...
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Damascus: A City of Conflict
By Benjamin Sacks On Wednesday, 18 July, a suicide bomber detonated his device inside the security offices of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Three of al-Assad’s closest allies were killed....
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The Geography of Thatcherism: 1979-1983
By Benjamin Sacks Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013). © Wikimedia Commons. Irrespective of one’s opinion of Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister, few would disagree that her policies and legacies...
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The Geographical Imagination and Britain’s Entanglements ‘East of Suez’
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