January 11, 2016 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Erdogan, Graham Fuller, Iran, ISIS, Russia, Syria, Turkey •
Fuller’s Last Year (2015) Predictions— Part 2 Prediction on Turkey: (I was considerably off base on this one) 2015 Prediction:President Erdoğan in Turkey will find his influence beginning to crumble in 2015. After a brilliant prime-ministership for the first decade of AKP power, he has become mired in corruption charges and has lashed out in […]
December 31, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Erdogan, EU, Graham Fuller, ISIS, IUS policy, Russia, Turkey •
Graham Fuller’s Scorecard on Predictions for 2015 30 December 2015 Having rashly ventured last year into making predictions for the coming year of 2015 in the Middle East, how do those assessments bear up today, one year later? This self-graded scorecard comes in two separate articles: due to space limitations I take up here today […]
November 18, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: ISIS, Islam, Jesus, Judaism, Paris, Rabbi Reuven Firestone, terrorism •
An American Rabbi’s Perspective on Paris forwarded from: Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) [There are a number of good articles out there on current issues in the Muslim world (although far more bad ones.) I don’t usually forward pieces by other commentators, just to keep my own mailings down. But I have made an exception in […]
November 15, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Iran, ISIS, Kurds, Paris bombings, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, UN, US •
ISIS- The Hour Has Struck Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 14 November 2015 ISIS, with its horrific attack on purely civilian targets in Paris, has established new realities about its nature, capabilities and intentions. The need for its elimination can now no longer be in doubt. It is not that Parisian lives are more important than […]
October 22, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Graham Fuller, Humpty Dumpty, international cooperation, ISIS, jihadis, Russia, US •
Humpty Dumpty —Can the Middle East be put back together again? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 22 October 2015 As mayhem and anarchy spread like a contagion across the Middle East, can the Middle East, like Humpty Dumpty, be put back together again? Some pundits say no. Yet, for a variety of […]
October 14, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Erdogan, Graham Fuller, HDP, ISIS, Kurds •
“Hüngür Hüngür Ağlıyorum” Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 14 October 2015 That’s a refrain from a old Turkish folksong—“Bitterly I weep.” It commemorates a bloody turning point at Sakarya against Greek invaders back in 1921. But the words couldn’t more readily apply now to the unprecented and outrageous bombing attacks in Ankara last week against marchers […]
October 8, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Graham Fuller, Iran, ISIS, Russia, Syria, US •
We Hate ‘Em All! Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 8 October 2015 With the arrival of Russian forces on the scene the Syrian situation has now grown unbearably complicated. Among the totality of players on the scene, Washington hates them all. The US has long detested Asad father and son; for years it has attempted to […]
September 8, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: EU, Gulf states, ISIS, refugees, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US •
Refugees and Responsibilities Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 8 September 2015 The picture last week of the little Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi dead on the beach in Turkey is one of those iconic pictures whose intense human face forces deeper reflection, especially upon publics for whom distant tragedies tend to be statistics rather than specific human […]
September 2, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Graham Fuller, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Syria •
ISIS, Again 1 September 2015 The West remains transfixed with ISIS (Islamic State, Da’ish) and the debate about its character goes on. In one sense this discussion is totally understandable, given the movement’s seeming sudden appearance on the public screen not much more than a year ago (although its roots were long since there), combined […]
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The Fall of ISIS—A Major Landmark in Muslim History
July 11, 2017 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Caliphate, Graham Fuller, ISIS, Mosul •
The Fall of ISIS—A Major Landmark in Muslim History Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 11 July 2017 The fall of the primary ISIS stronghold in Mosul in Iraq represents a turning point strategically, politically, ideologically and even religiously in the Muslim world. Mosul has been the largest symbolic center of the ISIS “Caliphate” over which the […]
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