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Media work

Dr Simon A. Waldman has contributed opinion pieces, analysis and commentaries to outlets such as Haaretz, The Globe and Mail, Open Democracy, City AM and Middle East Eye. In addition, he has appeared on a wide variety of television and radio programmes.

Op-eds and commentaries

Newspapers and periodicals

• 'Doomed to fail: The decline of American-Turkish relations", TheHill, 16 November 2017
• 'Balfour Is History. The Middle East’s New Imperialists Are Turkey and Iran', Haaretz, 1 November 2017
• 'Turkey’s bluster exposes its delusions of grandeur', The Globe and Mail, 11 October 2017
• 'An Independent Kurdistan Is in Turkey's National Interest', Haaretz, 2 October 2017
• 'Israel's left badly needs a populist leader if it ever wants power again', Middle East Eeye, 6 September 2017
• 'After the coup: Turkey one year on', Prospect Magazine, 13 July 2017
• The archipelago of press restriction in Turkey, LSE Polis Blog, 12 June 2017; Reprinted at Free Speech Debate, 15 August 2017 (with Emre Caliskan)
• 'A year after failed coup, the question of justice still looms in Turkey', The Globe and Mail, 12 July 2017
• 'Gandhi or Gump? The Turkish opposition leader’s march for justice', Middle East Eye, 5 July 2017
• 'Textbook Regression: Turkey’s anti-Semitic Onslaught Against Evolution,' Haaretz, 28 June 2017
• 'How Turkey Went From Being a Strategic Asset to a Liability', World Politics Review, 14 June 2017
• 'Nasser's populist rhetoric still affects region', The National, 5 June 2017
• 'Why Turkey needs Europe more than Europe needs Turkey,' Middle East Eye, 26 May 2017
• 'The Curious Optimism of Turkey-watchers Outside Turkey,' Haaretz, 15 May 2017
• 'After referendum, Turkey is more divided than ever', The Globe and Mail, 18 April 2017
• 'Conciliation is not on the cards after Turkey’s referendum', Middle East Eye, 18 April 2017
• 'Is Bashing Europe Erdogan's Winning Ticket Ahead of Turkey's Referendum?' World Politics Review, 12 April 2017 (with Emre Caliskan)  
• 'Erdogan may win the referendum, but Turkey will lose', Middle East Eye, 29 March 2017 (with Emre Caliskan)
• 'Turkey’s Syrian disaster', Middle East Eye, 9 March 2017
• 'The Weak State of Turkey', Prospect Magazine, 8 February 2017 (with Emre Caliskan) 
• 'Turkey's politics of hypocrisy', Middle East Eye, 12 January 2017 (with Emre Caliskan)
• 'Where are the ‘martyrs’ of the Istanbul nightclub attack?', The Globe and Mail, 1 January 2017
• '"Don't Forget Aleppo": Assassin of Russian Envoy Spoke - if Not Acted - for Many in Turkey', Haaretz, 21 December 2016
• 'Turkey can't afford another crisis with Russia', The Globe and Mail, 20 December 2016
• 'A sombre mood envelops Turkey after football stadium bombing', The National, 13 December 2016
• 'Erdogan will push for more power after Turkish terror attack', The Globe and Mail, 12 December 2016
• 'Can Turkey Cope with its Terror Threat?' Haaretz, 11 December 2016
• 'Turkish Politics Has Never Been About Democracy', Middle East Eye, 10 December 2016 (with Emre Caliskan)
• 'How Turkey's Erdogan played Europe - and won', Haaretz, 30 November 2016
• 'Turkey's Syrian and Iraqi adventures: the underlying message', Open Democracy, 30 November 2016 (with Emre Caliskan)
• 'Trump and the Middle East: Expect Continuity Not Change', The National Interest, 20 November 2016
• 'Is Erdogan seeing Gulenists or ghosts?' The Globe and Mail, 25 July 2016. 
• 'After Turkey's Attempted Coup, the Witch Hunt,' Haaretz, 17 July 2016
• 'The military's last stand: What went wrong for Turkey's coup plotters,' The Globe and Mail, 16 July 2016.
• ​'Explainer: what is the Turkish "deep state" and why is it in the frame for the Ankara bombings?' The Conversation, 13 October 2015. 
• Turkey's Age of Unaccountability,' Your Middle East, 8 June 2015 (with Emre Caliskan).
• 'Turkey's democratic deficit,' Open Democracy, 8 June 2015 (with Emre Caliskan).
• 'Proportionality and Israel’s Use of Force’, Political Science Association Blog, 12 August 2014.
• ‘As the conflict in Gaza continues, are we seeing a realignment of the Middle East?’ City AM, 31 July 2014.
• ‘Kurdish Independence: A Dream Fraught with Dander’, Haaretz, 17 June 2014 (with Sofia Barbarani).
• ‘All Aboard Erdogan’s Bus Ride,’ Hurriyet Daily News, 24 June 2013 (with Emre Caliskan).
• ‘Which Sultan is Erdogan?’ Open Democracy, 11 June 2013 (with Emre Caliskan).
• ‘Erdogan's aim: Suffocate the right to protest in Turkey,’ Haaretz, 5 June 2013, (with Emre Caliskan).
• ‘When Erdogan Returns,’ Jerusalem Post, 5 June 2013, (with Emre Caliskan).
• ‘Black Friday: A Turning Point In Turkey’s History?’, Al-Monitor, 3 June 2013 (with Emre Caliskan).
• ‘Turkey and the Arab Spring: Strategic Depth becomes strategic abyss,’ Hurriyet Daily News, 18 May 2011.
• ‘Ten year hunt is over but the war grinds on', Sunday Business Post, 8 May 2011 (with Rory Miller).
• ‘Scenario Scanning: The Syria-Israel-Hezbollah Triangle,’ International Relations and Security Network (ISN), ETH Zurich, 2 November 2010.

Television and radio

Simon A. Waldman has commented on political developments in the Middle East on outlets such as Bloomberg, BBC World Service, Channel 4 News, CNN, Monocle Radio, TRT World and Levant TV.