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Adel Bakawan

Director of EISMENA

Founder and current director of the European Institute for Studies on the Middle East and North Africa (EISMENA), he pays particular attention to Middle Eastern issues within the fields of the social sciences and geopolitics. He specializes in the five areas that make up the MENA region: the Arab, Turkish, Persian, Israeli, and Kurdish spheres. He has published several works, including his latest work, The Disintegration of the Middle East, has also just been released by Tallandier and focuses on the three major events that have impacted the region: 9/11, the Arab Spring, and October 7, 2023, or Iraq: A Century of Failure. From 1921 to the Present Day, published by Tallandier. 

Publications:

What Exactly is the Third Phase in the Conflict Between the US and Iran?

Adel Bakawan

Trump’s Most Powerful Weapon Against Iran Is Not Military

Adel Bakawan

France24: The Conflict in the Middle East and Saudi’s Recent Retaliatory Strikes

Adel Bakawan

Israel Facing Eight Fronts: What Security Reconfiguration in the Middle East?

Adel Bakawan

Trump vs. Netanyahu: How Lebanon Became a Bargaining Chip in U.S. – Iran Talks

Adel Bakawan

Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and the U.S.: Inside Tehran’s Strategy of Self-Preservation

Adel Bakawan

The Disintegration of the Middle East: Three Breaks that Changed History

Adel Bakawan

War in Iran: Can the Iranian regime truly sustain a long-term blockade of the strategic Strait of Hormuz?

Adel Bakawan

From the Decline of the Militia Order to the Uncertain Construction of the State: The Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iraqi Hashd Facing Their Destiny

Adel Bakawan

FranceCulture: Syria—The End of Rojava? The Kurds, the New Regime in Damascus, and Scenarios for the Future

Adel Bakawan

What is the future for Syria’s Kurds after Charaa’s ultimatum?

Adel Bakawan

Is ISIS Really Defeated? Why Syria & Iraq Still Drive the Jihadist Threat, with Brigitte Boucher from Franceinfo

Adel Bakawan

Will the Middle East be Falling Apart by 2025? TV5MONDEinfo

Adel Bakawan

Before the Legislative Elections, Iran Seeks to Consolidate Its Role in Iraq

Adel Bakawan

Turkey’s Comeback: Toward a Central Role in the Middle East?

Adel Bakawan

The Fall of Bashar al-Assad: What Are the Consequences for Shiite Iraq?

Adel Bakawan

Hezbollah: The Rise and Influence of a Militant Model in Lebanon

Adel Bakawan

Climate change: a catastrophe in the making

Adel Bakawan

Terrorism: Daesh, a ticking time bomb

Adel Bakawan

National ambition, divergent vision: Consensus and fracture among Iraqi youth activists of the Tishreen Movement

Adel Bakawan, Sarah-Anne Rennick

Iraq, a nationless state

Adel Bakawan