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January 30, 2014

Financial Markets
The Rise of Islamic Finance

After growing to a $1 trillion asset class in Muslim countries, Islamic finance is poised for an era of globalization.

A Bank Islam branch office in Malaysia
Backgrounder by Mohammed Aly Sergie

February 2, 2005

Iraq
IRAQ: Shiites

This publication is now archived. Will Shiites control the new Iraq?Most experts are certain that Iraqi Shiites, who make up some 60 percent of Iraq’s population, will play a leading role in the reco…

Backgrounder by Sharon Otterman

April 7, 2006

Iran
Iran’s Multifaceted Foreign Policy

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Iranian foreign policy is not the province of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but rather of a complex set of groups mostly run by clerics. This results in a foreign po…

Backgrounder by Lionel Beehner

October 31, 2005

Palestinian Territories
PFLP, DFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestinian leftists

This publication is now archived. What are the PFLP, the DFLP, and the PFLP-GC?Three far-left Palestinian nationalist groups that formed after the Six Day War of 1967 and pioneered terrorist strategi…

Backgrounder

July 19, 2010

Defense and Security
U.S. Drone Activities in Pakistan

The reliance on unmanned drones to target terror suspects in Pakistan has been quietly lauded by U.S. officials. But the covert program, which has so far gotten little public scrutiny, is facing moun…

Backgrounder by Greg Bruno