Kawaakibi Foundation’s research is the heart of our intellectual work — where moral clarity and systems thinking come together to understand collapse and design what comes after. Our aim is to expand the scope of how we think about liberation, grounding it in evidence, imagination, and care.
Our research program seeks to understand the root causes of the MENA region’s interconnected crises — and the ideas, technologies, and paradigms that could improve its future.
We examine power structures, trauma, and cultural systems, not in isolation but as part of a larger global pattern of instability and transformation.
KF’s approach is multidisciplinary, combining political theory, economics, psychology, art, and spiritual philosophy. Our work connects regional realities with global futures — producing frameworks that move beyond reaction to reconstruction.
Explore our featured reports, frameworks, and essays — or dive into the Knowledge Forest for the full archive.
“We think in decades, not news cycles.”
An ethical framework for trauma-informed and psychedelic therapy.
Practical guidance for practitioners and organizations.
How decentralised tools can strengthen civil society.
Insights for NGOs and activists in the MENA region.
Mapping emotional recovery as political repair.
Exploring trauma’s role in collective healing and justice.
Understanding collapse and imagining a new regional order.
Lessons from the region’s past and possible futures.
KF’s research spans multiple domains — from political systems and radicalization to economic transformation and the moral imagination of faith. Each area is a building block of our long-term vision for a freer, more just, and resilient MENA region.
Exploring the region’s historical and institutional foundations of power.
Includes The Middle East Crisis Factory — KF’s first book and a primer on the region’s past and possible futures.
Developing an alternative paradigm to confront 21st-century inequality.
Draws on the Muslim world’s traditions of wealth redistribution, sound money, and anti-rentier ethics to design equitable, post-extractive economies.
Studying the psychological and cultural roots of extremism across societies.
KF’s research connects global populist trends to trauma, identity, and collective fear — and explores how to build resilient communities.
Designing a vision for justice, equality, and shared belonging.
KF is developing a practical, one-state solution rooted in pluralism, moral clarity, and the idea of a homeland for all descendants.
Mapping the playbook of power.
Examining how regimes across the MENA (and globally) replicate strategies of control, repression, and manipulation — and how movements can resist and transcend them.
Reimagining faith for freedom.
A long-term project exploring Islam’s role in the region’s future — integrating theology, ethics, and liberation philosophy.
KF works with researchers, institutions, and movements that share our values — to develop joint studies, workshops, and long-term frameworks for change.
We welcome collaboration across academia, civil society, and independent media.
