Seminars

On the second day of the 9th Al Jazeera Forum, a session entitled “Military and Politics in the Arab World,” in which a number of researchers in the spheres of defense and politics participated, was held. Tawfiq Hamil, a researcher in military history and defense studies in France, presented at the...

The session's chairman began his speech by thanking the guests for travelling and making the effort for the discussion of its theme. He then introduced representatives of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the opposing Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Kurdish Democratic Party (...

Most of the Arab region is rife with conflicts of varying causes and forms, often times interlacing with and emerging from each other. The failure of national states and political regimes to achieve development, instate democracy, maintain sovereignty, and achieve Arab integration is the key reason...

Only a few years ago, e-journalism was the title of a new era of journalistic work. Journalism has since developed from a single mode or interface to platforms with a multiplicity of interfaces, tools, and modes. However, relative to traditional journalism, e-journalism differentiates itself by the...

As part of session eight on day 2 of the 9th Al Jazeera Forum, Al Jazeera's Public Liberties and Human Rights Department is hosting a seminar entitled "The Absence of Justice in the Plight of Journalists." This seminar seeks to answer the following questions: What are the major challenges to the...

Nearly 20 years have passed since Western intervention put an end to the war, aggression and genocide in Bosnia (1992-1995). The Dayton Accords were signed in Paris in December 1995 and the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) was deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The war ended without a winner...

The military, in many Arab countries, has occupied a pivotal position in the structure of modern Arab states since their inception and has played political roles of varying importance. Those roles were reinforced after a wave of military coups in the 1950s and the 1960s when the military...

The situation in Yemen had been speedily deteriorating for several months when the national dialogue reached a dead end and the Houthis nullified its achievements and outcomes. The political process turned into an armed conflict in which the Houthis, backed by former President Ali Abdullah Saleh...