AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Syria should be put back together again

11 Mar 2019

Students in Syria’s northwest Idlib province have protested the closure of 13 higher education institutes since January by the so-called Salvation Government imposed by al-Qaeda’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. The...

Global school strikes over climate issue

09 Mar 2019

Twenty thousand British students joined Continental colleagues a week ago to call on governments to take action to counter climate change. Students in more than 60 towns and cities around...

Centrepoint of a struggle

21 Jan 2019

The modest town of Manbij in north-central Syria has become the focus of the struggle for post-war presence on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey. The US, the...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.