Sherwan Hindreen Ali is a Middle East Research Manager at ACLED. He has been with ACLED since February 2021, first as an Iraq Researcher and then as Assistant Research Manager for the ACLED-Religion project. Sherwan earned a MA in Islamic Studies from McGill University, and his research background is in Islamist politics and Middle Eastern history. He speaks Arabic, Kurdish, English, French, and Persian, and is based in Montreal, Canada.
ACLED’s Middle East Research Manager Sherwan Hindreen Ali comments on recent Yemen-Saudi tensions after years of hiatus
Israel stepped up pressure on Hamas in Gaza, and Iran continued targeting the Gulf while an agreement with the US stalls
ACLED’s Middle East Research Manager Sherwan Hindreen Ali comments on recent Iranian maritime attack in Iraqi waters
ACLED’s Middle East Research Manager Sherwan Hindreen Ali comments on the rise of attacks from Iraqi militias against Gulf countries following UAE’s nuclear plant strike
AQAP’s new leader signaled he would shift the group’s focus. So far, his early rhetoric hasn’t matched ground reality.
Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, deadly state repression across Iran halts protests, and violence escalated between state forces and the SDF in northern Syria.
The ceasefire in Gaza held in October as low-level violence continued, while the ceasefire in Lebanon approached one year under strain, and settler violence against olive harvesters in the West Bank reached a record high.
Military pressure in Gaza City escalated as a ceasefire outline emerged, renewed confrontations broke out between government forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria, and an uptick of Houthi attacks in Israel prompted Israel’s deadly retaliation this past month
Watch the recorded conversation about how the Iran war has reshaped Israeli and Gulf threat perceptions, what the MoU could mean for regional security in the months ahead, etc.
