Meszár Tárik, at The Blogs

Dec 10, 2024, 12:56 AM

Trump’s Return Could Lead to Significant Changes in the Middle East

Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House could dramatically reshape the political and security dynamics of the Middle East. His strong support for Israel, strategy to contain Iran, and broader efforts to redefine the region’s balance of power...

Oct 15, 2024, 12:20 AM

Iranian-Kurdish rapprochement and its effect on Israel

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed to ‘resolve’ the issues with Iraqi Kurdistan. On the second day of his official visit to Iraq, Pezeshkian met with several Kurdish officials in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. Nechirvan Barzani, the President of Kurdistan, described...

Sep 10, 2024, 10:21 PM

New bus service launched to protect London’s Jews

Anti-Semitic incidents have reached record levels in the UK, but hatred of Muslims has also increased following the Hamas attack last October. London transport authorities have introduced a new bus service linking two areas of the capital with large Jewish...

May 6, 2024, 11:27 PM

The invisible inhabitants of the Arab world

The Arab world is ethnically extremely diverse, as many non-Arab communities also live in it. The region encompasses many ethnic groups and religious communities. In addition to the Arabs, there are Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, and many other smaller and larger...

Feb 25, 2024, 11:15 PM

Arab mercenaries in the Russian-Ukrainian war

Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously decreed that he would grant Russian citizenship to foreigners who volunteer to fight in the ranks of the Russian army against Ukraine. The foreign mercenaries fighting on the Ukrainian fronts (in addition to...

Jan 30, 2024, 2:54 AM

The Yemeni Houthis threaten European gas supplies

The strategic importance of the Red Sea for Qatar is outstanding in terms of Qatari oil and gas supplies. The country is rich in energy resources, especially natural gas, and the trade routes across the Red Sea are vital...

Jan 2, 2024, 8:50 PM

The Houthi militia is a growing problem

The Yemeni Houthi militia has carried out drone and missile attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea, prompting many of the world’s largest shipping companies to announce that they would avoid the area. Beginning of the offensives on the...

Aug 20, 2023, 6:55 AM

The Story of the Iraqi Jews in a Nutshell

The history of the Iraqi Jews spans a period of several thousand years. The Jewish presence in Mesopotamia dates back to ancient times, so that Mesopotamia and later Iraq hosted one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world...

Jul 12, 2023, 11:06 PM

The Development of Hungarian-Israeli Relations

Israeli-Hungarian relations have developed impressively in recent decades. Although relations between Hungary and Israel have not always been unclouded, significant progress has been made in recent decades, and relations between the two countries have grown stronger and deeper. This...

May 19, 2023, 6:15 PM

Saudi-Iranian reconciliation hinders development of Arab-Israeli relations

The recent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran could bring about a significant change in Arab-Iranian relations while creating obstacles to the normalization of Arab-Israeli relations. The Saudi-Iranian agreement Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed March 10 to resume relations after years of...

About Me

Since September 2020, I have been a PhD student of the Arabic Studies program of the Doctoral School of Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University. From September 2021 I am a participant in the Mathias Corvinus Collegium PhD Program and a researcher at the Migration Research Institute, where I study the situation of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East, mainly Iraq and Egypt. I also deal with the Arabic language and its dialects, as well as the international relations of the Arab world and its role in the world economy.