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Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO held a regular online-seminar named after G. Mirsky “Middle East: the policy and the identity”. At the event there was held the presentation of the collective monograph of the same name.

The issue was prepared by the collective of the Russian Middle East researchers. In the Russian scientific literature it is one of the first comprehensive studies of the identity factor in the domestic and the foreign policy of such Middle East countries as Turkey, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. The influence of the external forces on the evolution of the identities in the states of the region is studied on the example of the USA and the EU.

Academician of the RAS, President of the Academic Council of the Institute of Oriental Studies Dr. Vitaly Naumkin, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Head of the Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Political Studies of the IMEMO Dr. Irina Semenenko, Head of the Department of the Political Theory of the MGIMO, Prof. Tatiana Alexeeva, reviewers and the authors of other chapters of the monograph made reports at the meeting.

The participants of the meeting held the discussion on the basis of the reports.

Head of the Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO Dr. Irina Zvyagelskaya moderated the event.