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After UNGA: Can a broken memorandum be put back together?

After UNGA: Can a broken memorandum be put back together?

For a moment this week, the freeze between Washington and Tehran looked like it might actually crack. On 23rd September, Iranian Foreign Minister...

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Mansoor Qaisar

Qatar’s energy diplomacy: Can a diversified energy portfolio translate into broader influence?

Qatar’s energy diplomacy: Can a diversified energy portfolio translate into broader influence?
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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Too small to lead, too visible to hide: Jumblatt and the Druze framework calculus

Too small to lead, too visible to hide: Jumblatt and the Druze framework calculus
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Ali Salman

Yemen’s war is closer to Indonesia than it looks

Yemen’s war is closer to Indonesia than it looks
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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

New York is becoming a stage for speeches, not decisions

New York is becoming a stage for speeches, not decisions
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Jenny Williams

Félix Tshisekedi in Jerusalem and the dangerous marriage of faith, foreign policy and political survival

Félix Tshisekedi in Jerusalem and the dangerous marriage of faith, foreign policy and political survival
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Kambale Musavuli

Aafia, Adiala, and the architecture of the War on Terror

Aafia, Adiala, and the architecture of the War on Terror
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Junaid S. Ahmad

Iran just gave Washington a deadline. Watch Islamabad, not the White House

Iran just gave Washington a deadline. Watch Islamabad, not the White House
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Mansoor Qaisar

Rising from the ashes: Post-Assad Syria is slowly stirring

Rising from the ashes: Post-Assad Syria is slowly stirring
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Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal

School deaths and narco killings: The UN and US crimes in international law

School deaths and narco killings: The UN and US crimes in international law
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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Trump’s new Middle East has one missing piece: Palestine

Trump’s new Middle East has one missing piece: Palestine
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Tamer Ajrami

A reading of the General Assembly speeches: Justice for Palestine and the decline of unipolarity

A reading of the General Assembly speeches: Justice for Palestine and the decline of unipolarity
24.09.2026 70

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

What is the extent of the UN’s impunity when it comes to the two-state politics?

What is the extent of the UN’s impunity when it comes to the two-state politics?
24.09.2026 60

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Ramona Wadi

Fierce rhetoric and cowardly pragmatism in the Iranian theatre

Fierce rhetoric and cowardly pragmatism in the Iranian theatre
24.09.2026 70

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Karam Nama

From Najaf to Hormuz: The forty-seven-year road that brought Iran’s revolution to the Gulf’s doorstep

From Najaf to Hormuz: The forty-seven-year road that brought Iran’s revolution to the Gulf’s doorstep
24.09.2026 70

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

NAZA, Israel’s war on witnesses, and media complicity

NAZA, Israel’s war on witnesses, and media complicity
24.09.2026 70

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Jamal Kanj

Bahrain’s energy connectivity paradox: Networked resilience or deeper dependence?

24.09.2026 80

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Is Israel’s reign ending? Macklemore and the cultural war over Palestine

Is Israel’s reign ending? Macklemore and the cultural war over Palestine
24.09.2026 60

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

AI isn’t a future threat—it is already erasing Gaza

AI isn’t a future threat—it is already erasing Gaza
24.09.2026 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The Iran War and representation beyond election day

The Iran War and representation beyond election day
23.09.2026 70

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Peter Rodgers

Turkiye’s electricity paradox: More capacity than peak demand, but what comes next?

Turkiye’s electricity paradox: More capacity than peak demand, but what comes next?

Turkiye has nearly 127 GW of installed generation capacity, while its summer peak demand reached about 60.4 GW in July 2025. At first glance, that...

23.09.2026 70

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Dr Umud Shokri

Has Trump’s failure to bomb Iran into capitulation backfired, prompting Netanyahu and MBS to pull Washington in the opposite direction?

Has Trump’s failure to bomb Iran into capitulation backfired, prompting Netanyahu and MBS to pull Washington in the opposite direction?

Despite US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the Iranian regime is on its knees and has all along desperately pleaded for a deal to end...

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Zayd Alisa

Chile’s envoy to Israel at center of political storm over remarks about Palestinians

Chile’s envoy to Israel at center of political storm over remarks about Palestinians
22.09.2026 80

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Eman Abusidu

How silencing dynamics work in the international arena

How silencing dynamics work in the international arena
22.09.2026 70

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Ramona Wadi

The Iran War comes home before the midterms

The Iran War comes home before the midterms
22.09.2026 70

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Greg Pence

Egyptian-Houthi struggle for control of the Red Sea

Egyptian-Houthi struggle for control of the Red Sea
22.09.2026 80

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Mahmoud Hassan

Kuwait: Oil wealth and the need to rethink energy diplomacy

Kuwait: Oil wealth and the need to rethink energy diplomacy
21.09.2026 70

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

The dual failure: How Conservatives and Labour inherited—and deepened—Britain’s ruin

The dual failure: How Conservatives and Labour inherited—and deepened—Britain’s ruin
21.09.2026 80

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Karam Nama

Refineries as battlefields: Ukraine’s Moscow strike and global diesel risks

Refineries as battlefields: Ukraine’s Moscow strike and global diesel risks
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Dr Umud Shokri

How Germany’s anti-Palestinian crackdowns paved the way for the AfD

How Germany’s anti-Palestinian crackdowns paved the way for the AfD
21.09.2026 90

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Muhammad Bilal Malik

Saudi Arabia has the weapons. What about a strategy?

Saudi Arabia has the weapons. What about a strategy?
21.09.2026 80

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Prabowo’s tears for Palestine are not enough

Prabowo’s tears for Palestine are not enough
21.09.2026 80

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

The Makkah Pact’s first test: Can Pakistan defend Saudi Arabia without entering Yemen’s war?

The Makkah Pact’s first test: Can Pakistan defend Saudi Arabia without entering Yemen’s war?
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Mansoor Qaisar

Sinking the empire: How Western militarism surrendered the arteries of global trade

Sinking the empire: How Western militarism surrendered the arteries of global trade
19.09.2026 90

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Jenny Williams

From war to statehood: A roadmap to ending the Yemeni conflict

From war to statehood: A roadmap to ending the Yemeni conflict
19.09.2026 100

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Saddam Obaid Yusr Al-Zubaidi

Indonesia’s Bandung Institute of Technology must investigate, and end, its Israel exchange link

Indonesia’s Bandung Institute of Technology must investigate, and end, its Israel exchange link
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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Turkiye: From energy corridor to regional network power

Turkiye: From energy corridor to regional network power
18.09.2026 80

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

How the Houthis outmaneuvered Washington and Riyadh

How the Houthis outmaneuvered Washington and Riyadh
18.09.2026 90

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Dr Jannus Th Siahaan

From Tantura to Gaza: History was not falsified, nor was testimony silenced

From Tantura to Gaza: History was not falsified, nor was testimony silenced
17.09.2026 80

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

The Mecca Pact must meet the test of war

The Mecca Pact must meet the test of war
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Mansoor Qaisar

There is no real aversion to ethnic cleansing from the international community

There is no real aversion to ethnic cleansing from the international community
17.09.2026 80

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Ramona Wadi

Aramco is not the Kaaba

Aramco is not the Kaaba
17.09.2026 80

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Junaid S. Ahmad

The Mangoush affair, three years on: Palestine remains a red line in Libya’s foreign policy

The Mangoush affair, three years on: Palestine remains a red line in Libya’s foreign policy

When news broke, in 2023, that Libya’s first female foreign minister, Najla Al-Mangoush, had secretly met her Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, in...

17.09.2026 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

From Count Bernadotte to the ‘Gaza Board of Peace’

From Count Bernadotte to the ‘Gaza Board of Peace’

On the afternoon of 17th September 1948,  a three-car convoy wound its way through the tense, war-torn streets of Jerusalem. Inside one of the...

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Dr Sahar Huneidi

Is Europe restraining Israel—or merely protecting the two-state illusion?

This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to...

16.09.2026 80

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

Nature has its say in Gaza

For nearly three years, Palestinians in Gaza have been taught, brutally, that almost everything necessary for ordinary human life can be destroyed or...

16.09.2026 90

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Dr Oroub El-Abed

Pakistan’s bet: Power without becoming a pawn

Small and middle powers rarely choose their geography. They only choose what to do with it. Pakistan sits at the seam of South Asia, the Gulf, and...

16.09.2026 90

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

From Caspian gas to Turkish industry: SOCAR’s geopolitical energy strategy

State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has become one of Türkiye’s largest foreign investors and a core pillar of the...

16.09.2026 90

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Dr Umud Shokri

Riyadh phones Tel Aviv: From petro-power to palace panic

Sometimes an entire political order confesses itself in a single telephone call. Saudi Arabia, custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, self-appointed...

16.09.2026 100

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Al‑Zaidi and the age of the unqualified politician

The age of the unqualified politician is not a rhetorical flourish; it is a reality that becomes painfully visible every time a press conference turns...

16.09.2026 80

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Karam Nama