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On September 21st, Human Security Centre Director Dr. Dwayne Menezes attended the News and Documentary Emmy award ceremony in New York. Dr. Menezes represented HSC at the ceremony promoting the film “My Enemy, My Brother”, which was nominated for a ...
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To preserve the positive influences Oman can exert in the region, international efforts should be invested in building upon that stability and facilitating the road towards a more democratic dispensation.
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An overview of the strategic threats and challenges Iran has confronted and continues to confront.
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There is no shortage of evidence of how in the past Western-supplied goods became tools of repression.
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The Kurds have been among the greatest victims of history.
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Recent pleas by then Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal for American “boots on the ground” to prevent Tehran from “taking over Iraq” have fallen on deaf ears in Washington.
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