Here are four articles from the Spring 2016 Middle East Quarterly:
Why Putin Wants Syria
By Jiri Valenta and Leni Friedman Valenta
Erdoğan’s One-Man Islamist Show
By Burak Bekdil
The Burqa Challenge to Europe
By Paul Cliteur and Machteld Zee
Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Alliances
By Emmanuel Karagiannis