Denis Sullivan

Denis Sullivan, a political science professor and co-director of the Middle East Center at Boston-based Northeastern University, told VOA that Russia is in charge when it comes to the forces supporting Assad and that it will take the full focus of the U.S. government to apply necessary pressure on Russia.

If the group emerges from the crisis unscathed, then its chief, Hassan Nasrallah, “will win by not losing,” said Denis Sullivan, co-director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University in Boston. It’s too late to counter Hezbollah at least not in a “one fell swoop,” said Sullivan. “The cat is out of the bag […]

In response to this informational deficit, a seven-person research team from Northeastern University was deployed along the western Balkan migration route into Europe (see map below) to speak with Syrian migrants, learn how and why they have left their country, and study the consequences of their migration to themselves and to Europe. Members of the […]

Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president.

On the night of Jan. 28, as Cairo’s police forces retreated from the waves of angry protesters advancing on Tahrir Square through thick clouds of white tear gas, just one block away, thieves broke into the world-famous, and once-highly secure, Egyptian Museum.