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There is a familiar analytical noise that rises with every new government in Iraq, a noise that feels like replaying an old recording at a higher...
The Middle East is no longer shaped solely by the influence of Western powers. For decades, countries such as the United States, Britain and France...
“If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog,” former US President Harry Truman said once. His classic line has just got a modern, satirical...
The war that Donald Trump declared won last month looks rather different from the inside of the Pentagon. The resulting stalemate has drained American...
It has been a sorry though predictable exercise. When he lived up (or down) to expectations of atrocious conduct befitting the proud bigot that he...
The German organisation Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (JV) may, for the time being, continue to be classified as “extremist” by...
The image that ricocheted across the world was not a missile strike, nor another skyline collapsing into Gaza’s dust. It was far quieter than that....
For months the world has remained fixated on a single number: 450 kilograms. That figure — referring to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched...
For years, Indonesia has wrapped itself in the moral vocabulary of anti-colonialism and Palestinian solidarity. Its leaders lecture the world about...
Israel’s occupation of Arab states does not necessarily have to take a physical form, as happened in the past with the rest of Palestine, the Syrian...
“It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.” Two thousand five hundred years on, the trap is...
From oil wells to data power For decades, power in the global energy market was defined by oil reserves, production capacity, pipelines, shipping...
Colonialism is dehumanising. It is something akin to a spectacle that several world leaders and ministers have partially woken up to that fact, after...
Despite decades of maximum pressure, crippling sanctions, and diplomatic isolation, the geopolitical reality of the Middle East suggests a profound...
US President Donald Trum’’s state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijing’s ascendancy...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five-nation diplomatic tour across the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Italy from May 15-20,...
The most accurate portrayal of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is perhaps the 2017 Kuwait summit, which was held at the height of the...
Just before Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing, Iranian news outlets reported a significant development in the Strait of Hormuz: Chinese...
Indonesia has condemned Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Officials have demanded access to detained Indonesians and called for...
Another Nakba commemoration has passed. At the UN, the rhetoric remains unchanged. It is chilling that even after a colonial genocide which Israeli...
Donald Trump returns from his visit to China without the display of strength he had hoped to project to the world. No meaningful public concessions,...
It is impossible to understand the logic of America’s exorbitant military expenditures and successive wars in various countries – from Vietnam,...
The UAE’s planned second Fujairah, or West-East, pipeline marks a major shift in Gulf energy security and export strategy. It matters not only...
There are moments in international politics when geography becomes destiny. The Strait of Hormuz—barely 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest...
For decades, the Transatlantic alliance was presented as the cornerstone of the so-called liberal international order—a partnership portrayed by...
The presence of Egyptian forces in the UAE, against the backdrop of the US and Israeli-led war on Iran, raises serious questions among the Egyptian...
During his official visit to Beijing, President Donald Trump faced a challenge of a peculiar kind. A White House official later revealed that the...
If there is one thing that now appears irreversible, it is that Iran did not lose this war and that the United States and Israel have collectively...
China’s growing engagement with Iran increasingly reveals that Tehran is no longer merely a regional issue confined to Middle Eastern politics. Iran...
When military power fails to impose “deterrence,” oil becomes politics. And the Strait of Hormuz is now writing Gulf security rules instead of the...
There is a strange ritual in Washington whenever Iran is discussed. The language begins with democracy, women’s rights, non-proliferation and...
Every year on 15 May, Palestinians mark the Nakba — the catastrophe of 1948. Yet to describe the Nakba as history is to misunderstand its enduring...
The end of traditional energy politics For decades, energy diplomacy in the Middle East revolved around a familiar triangle: Oil, geopolitics and...
On this day, 15 May 2026, I became a refugee for 28,489 days. I never forgot it for a moment. I shall never cease to try to return home by any...
Reform UK’s recent electoral success should not be dismissed as a simple protest vote against the political establishment. It reflects a deeper...
The transition of power in Iraq usually moves with the glacial, agonizing pace of a desert sandstorm, choked by the competing interests of Tehran and...
Every year on May 15, the Palestinian people commemorate the Nakba that befell them in 1948, when Zionist militias and gangs forcibly displaced over...
As Palestinians mark the seventy-eighth anniversary of the Nakba, I found myself once again turning over old photographs and fragments of memory from...
The war on Iran stands as a revealing reflection of a profound structural shift in an international order that has been taking shape for years. The...
The future of energy security will depend less on who controls oil wells and more on who controls batteries, critical minerals and electricity storage...
The Pakistani security state possesses an almost supernatural ability to discover “sovereignty” whenever cameras are rolling in Washington and to...
On the eve of the 78th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the silence around the world speaks volumes about oblivion. At the UN, a brief program,...
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was primarily established by five oil-exporting nations as a defiant response to the...
The decision by United States President Donald Trump to back Ali al-Zaidi as Iraq’s next prime minister may have surprised some quarters. But when...
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society...
Turkey’s reported plan to submit a bill to parliament asserting maritime jurisdiction over disputed areas of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean...
On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness,...
You know that old temptation in American foreign policy — the idea that if you’re strong enough, you can just force reality to go your way? Under...
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