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Untangling tribes

Tribes in the Middle East are as important as they are tricky to understand—given roles, structures, and identities that have shifted tremendously over time. To help foreign diplomats make quick sense of this complex topic, we:

  1. Conducted extensive fieldwork on three tribes spanning the Syrian-Iraqi border

  2. Cross-checked our findings with documentary evidence



  3. Distilled our analysis into a poster-format infographic

  4. Used the latter to convey must-knows, through short oral briefings


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