‘Words are cheaper than bullets’: Britain’s psychological warfare in the Middle East, 1945–60

A Feasibility Study of the Greater Middle East Project and the Islamic Awakening in the Middle East

The Greater Middle East Project was put forth by Colin Powel, the Minister of Defense at George Bush Administration on 12 September, 2002. The objectives which have been posed for this plan include: Economic reform, promotion of human rights, establishment of democracy and freedom of election in the Middle East which could be implemented by different instruments and tactics. Of course, it is ne...

Psychological Warfare and Terrorism

This brief article demonstrates that there are common psychological principles that can be effectively and directly applied to illustrate the utility of terrorist activities. One key contention is that terrorism should be considered the pinnacle of strategic behaviors within any protracted campaign emphasizing psychological warfare. A variety of mechanisms and concepts are utilized to make this...

The Regional Context of Human Rights in the Middle East

Human rights situation in the Middle East (ME) is a central concern in contemporary political as well as academic discourses. There is a considerable amount of literature on the subject, both academic and journalistic, in the Western world. A large part of that literature blames the ME in different ways for its ‘terrible’ conception and treatment of human rights norms. They typically, do not he...

The Fulani are not from the Middle East.

In a recent issue of PNAS, Scheinfeldt et al. (1) maintained that, although Fulani mtDNA is consistent with a West African origin, the linguistic and nonrecombinant portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) supports a Middle Eastern origin for this population. Although this is their opinion, the linguistic and genetic evidence fails to support this conclusion. The Fulani speak a Niger-Congo language. T...

A Psychological Study of Roots of Religious Violence in the Middle East بررسی روانشناختی ریشه های خشونت مذهبی در خاورمیانه