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Marc Martorell Junyent

Marc Martorell Junyent graduated in International Relations at Ramon Llull University (Barcelona) and holds a joint Master in Comparative and Middle East Politics and Society at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the American University in Cairo. His research interests are the politics and history of the Middle East (particularly Iran, Turkey, and Yemen), and rebel governance. He has studied and worked in Ankara, Istanbul, and Tunis. Twitter: @MarcMartorell3

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Is Israel Over-Hyping the Supposed Iran Threat?

Is Israel Over-Hyping the Supposed Iran Threat?

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Jonathan G. Leslie, Fear and Insecurity: Israel and the Iran Threat Narrative (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – “Words have consequences,” writes Jonathan G. Leslie on the last page of his book “Fear and Insecurity: Israel and the Iran Threat Narrative.” He argues that the predominant Israeli […]

Israel/ Palestine
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Review)

Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Review)

Marc Martorell Junyent

  Review of Amahl A. Bishara, Crossing A Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford: University of Stanford Press, 2022).   Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – In 2003, Amahl A. Bishara, currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, arrived in Palestine as a PhD student to conduct fieldwork. After […]

Afghanistan
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan  (Review)

The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (Review)

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Ahmad Shuja Jamal and William Maley, The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (London: Hurst and Co., 2023). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment) – The Republic of Afghanistan unraveled quickly after May 2021 when US-led foreign troops prepared to abandon the country. This defied the forecasts of most experts on the capacity […]

Featured
A Crucial Year:  Turkey at a Turning Point

A Crucial Year: Turkey at a Turning Point

Marc Martorell Junyent

Reviews of Gönül Tol, Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria (London: Hurst and Co., 2022) and Dimitar Bechev, Turkey Under Erdoğan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022).   Augsburg, Germany (Feature: Special to Informed Comment) – At the beginning of […]

Islamophobia
The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, by Rizwaan Sabir (Review)

The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State, by Rizwaan Sabir (Review)

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Rizwaan Sabir, The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and The Security State (London: Pluto Press, 2022.) Greifswald, Germany (Special to Informed Comment) – In May 2008, a post-graduate student of International Relations was arrested for six days after downloading a 140-page document on Al-Qaeda from the US Justice Department website. A copy of the document […]

Houthi
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War (Review)

Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War (Review)

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Greifswald, Germany (Special to Informed Comment) – In a context of war, do accountability and justice need to wait until the end of the conflict? In her well-researched and original book Yemen in the Shadow […]

journalism
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History  (Review)

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History (Review)

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Jeremy Bowen, The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History (London: Picador, 2022). Greifswald, Germany (Special to Informed Comment) – Ali Abdullah Saleh, Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah, and Muammar Gaddafi are just some of the prominent figures in contemporary Middle Eastern history that Jeremy Bowen has had the opportunity to interview […]

History
Mehran Kamrava, ‘Triumph and Despair: in Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic’  (Review)

Mehran Kamrava, ‘Triumph and Despair: in Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic’ (Review)

Marc Martorell Junyent

Review of Mehran Kamrava, Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran’s Islamic Republic (London: Hurst and Co., 2022). Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – During the last three months, Iran has been a main focus of international media attention due to the ongoing anti-government protests that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old […]

Houthi
Yemen:  ‘What Have we Left Behind’ by Bushra Al-Maqtari – “Only victims are real in this war”

Yemen: ‘What Have we Left Behind’ by Bushra Al-Maqtari – “Only victims are real in this war”

Marc Martorell Junyent

Barcelona (Special to Informed Comment) – Review of Bushra Al-Maqtari, What Have You Left Behind? (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.) “Only victims are real in this war, victims crushed by violence.”[1] The writer behind this sentence is Bushra Al-Maqtari, a human rights activist, journalist, and novelist. The war she refers to is the ongoing conflict in […]

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