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Catherine Shakdam

Director of Programs for the Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies

Catherine Shakdam is a political analyst and commentator for the Middle East with a special focus on Yemen and radical movements. She is the Director of Programs for the Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies in the UK, and serves as Special Adviser for the Middle East for Prince Ali Seraj of Afghanistan. She also sits as the Executive Director of PASI (Prince Ali Seraj of Afghanistan Institute for Peace and Reconstruction)She is the author of Arabia's Rising - Under The Banner Of The First Imam.Her writings have appeared on RT, Press TV, Mehr News, The Foreign Policy Journal, The Duran, MintPress, the American Herald Tribune, Open Democracy, the Age of Reflection and many others.She's the director and founder of Veritas-Consulting: www.veritas-consulting.one

January 7, 2018

Media propaganda and political maneuvering against Iran - shaping lies as realities
January 7, 2018

Imam Khomeinis warning - Why driving God away from the public sphere renders the political thought inept

December 2, 2017

Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and the Islamic thought
November 28, 2017

Yahya Mohammed Saleh: Yemen will rise a secular democracy or the region will fall

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November 15, 2017

A Pilgrimage of the heart - Arbaeen 2017 shows the best Islam has to offer
October 29, 2017

#ARBAEEN WALK - Millions converge to Karbala to mark the worlds largest pilgrimage

October 27, 2017

#Walk4Orphans - Those victims of war we refuse to see
October 27, 2017

Arbaeen:The Great Walk - Interview with Reza John Vedadi
October 25, 2017

One crown to bind them, one prince to save them all or so he says
October 17, 2017

Rights group decries media blackout in Yemen - The architecture of a genocide
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