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Al-Aqsa: The moment of peril is here. Will the Muslim world act?

Al-Aqsa: The moment of peril is here. Will the Muslim world act?

An exclusive investigation by Middle East Eye last week revealed that both US and Israel were coordinating to remove Jordan’s custodianship over...

yesterday 20

Middle East Monitor

Ismail Patel

The End of American Forward Presence in the Persian Gulf

The End of American Forward Presence in the Persian Gulf

Something fundamental has shifted in the Persian Gulf, and the analysts who have spent careers watching American power projection are now saying what...

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Why the Iran conflict demands a fresh strategy in the Arab world

Why the Iran conflict demands a fresh strategy in the Arab world

The latest clashes involving the US, Israel, and Iran go beyond just another round of Middle East fighting. They shine a harsh light on how shaky the...

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Timothy Hopper 

Israel’s Pressure Is Testing America’s Iran Diplomacy

Israel’s Pressure Is Testing America’s Iran Diplomacy

A deal with Iran is never allowed to be just a deal with Iran. That is the first rule of Washington politics. The moment a diplomatic opening appears,...

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Jenny Williams

Could Iran’s New Air Defense System Be a Game Changer?

Could Iran’s New Air Defense System Be a Game Changer?

The doctrine of absolute air dominance, long regarded as an unassailable pillar of Western military strategy, is facing an unexpected test over the...

previous day 40

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Dr Jannus Th Siahaan

Syria has sacrificed the soul of the revolution by arresting Bilal Abdul Kareem

Syria has sacrificed the soul of the revolution by arresting Bilal Abdul Kareem

The Syrian revolution was fought to tear down a police state, not to replace it with a replica under a different banner. Today, Assad’s dungeons of...

previous day 30

Middle East Monitor

Yvonne Ridley

Instead of expanding gas, the UAE should help Indonesia build offshore wind

Instead of expanding gas, the UAE should help Indonesia build offshore wind

Within months, Mubadala Energy is expected to make a final investment decision on its Tangkulo development in Indonesia’s South Andaman block, where...

previous day 50

Middle East Monitor

Bhima Yudhistira

The heirs of the Nizamiyyah: Persian patience, American hubris

The heirs of the Nizamiyyah: Persian patience, American hubris

In the 11th century, the Persian statesman Nizam al-Mulk (Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi, born in Khurasan in 1018) built an empire not with swords alone,...

previous day 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr Sahar Huneidi

Beyond the Yellow Line: Israel Seizes More of Gaza

Beyond the Yellow Line: Israel Seizes More of Gaza

While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is...

previous day 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

China’s Treasury gambit: A decade in the making

China’s Treasury gambit: A decade in the making
saturday 50

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

When rights are sold back as concessions

When rights are sold back as concessions
29.05.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr Mojtaba Touiserkani

Beyond Gaza: The expanding geography of displacement

Beyond Gaza: The expanding geography of displacement
29.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr Oroub El-Abed

What Abraham refused: The Ishmaels of the modern world

What Abraham refused: The Ishmaels of the modern world
29.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ayşe Duran Yilmaz

The ceasefire illusion: Managing genocide under the “Board of Peace”

The ceasefire illusion: Managing genocide under the “Board of Peace”
29.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Stop blaming Netanyahu, stupid . . .

Stop blaming Netanyahu, stupid . . .
29.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Jamal Kanj

The man who defeated nobody: Netanyahu’s theatre of ruin

The man who defeated nobody: Netanyahu’s theatre of ruin
29.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Electricity diplomacy: The new power in the Middle East

Electricity diplomacy: The new power in the Middle East
29.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Wars may end, but displacement persists: Where is humanitarianism in the US-Iran war?

Wars may end, but displacement persists: Where is humanitarianism in the US-Iran war?
29.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Manoug Antaby

The ceasefire framework is exposing Lebanon’s institutional collapse

The ceasefire framework is exposing Lebanon’s institutional collapse
28.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Ali salman

The EU’s fragmented focus rewards colonial violence

The EU’s fragmented focus rewards colonial violence
28.05.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Dr Swee Ang, founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, deplatformed by the BMA

Dr Swee Ang, founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, deplatformed by the BMA
28.05.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

David mond

Self-engineered decay: Why Israel’s political collapse cannot be separated from its war crimes

Self-engineered decay: Why Israel’s political collapse cannot be separated from its war crimes
28.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

Why does Muqtada al‑Sadr expect us to believe him?

Why does Muqtada al‑Sadr expect us to believe him?
27.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

The Hajj ceasefire the Middle East never expected

The Hajj ceasefire the Middle East never expected
27.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Can Kuwait really be Indonesia’s defence ally?

Can Kuwait really be Indonesia’s defence ally?
27.05.2026 70

Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Iran is quietly turning Hormuz into a political checkpoint

Iran is quietly turning Hormuz into a political checkpoint
27.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Dr Umud Shokri

Resolutions are disconnected from the Palestinian reality

Resolutions are disconnected from the Palestinian reality
26.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Manufacturing a substitute enemy: When Iran replaces Palestine in Arab media

Manufacturing a substitute enemy: When Iran replaces Palestine in Arab media
26.05.2026 70

Middle East Monitor

Timothy Hopper 

A peace that carries the scent of accepting reality

A peace that carries the scent of accepting reality
26.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Peter Rodgers

The Illusion of a Political Solution in Ali al-Zaidi and the Green Zone

The Illusion of a Political Solution in Ali al-Zaidi and the Green Zone

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...

25.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

The rise of China in Middle East politics

The rise of China in Middle East politics

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...

25.05.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ismail Adaramola

Forget Truman’s Dog: The Devastating New Price of Friendship with Tel Aviv

Forget Truman’s Dog: The Devastating New Price of Friendship with Tel Aviv

“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...

25.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Yvonne Ridley

Escape or Escalate: Trump’s Tactical Crossroads in the Iran Conflict

Escape or Escalate: Trump’s Tactical Crossroads in the Iran Conflict

The war that Donald Trump declared won last month looks rather different from the inside of the Pentagon. The resulting stalemate has drained American...

24.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Acceptable Till it Wasn’t: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Global Sumud Flotilla

Acceptable Till it Wasn’t: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Global Sumud Flotilla

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...

24.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

German court classifies Jewish Voice as “extremist”

German court classifies Jewish Voice as “extremist”

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...

23.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Leon Wystrychowski

Has the Flotilla finally exposed the West’s moral double standard?

Has the Flotilla finally exposed the West’s moral double standard?

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....

23.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Kurniawan Arif Maspul

The World Cannot Contain Iran Forever Outside the Global Order

The World Cannot Contain Iran Forever Outside the Global Order

For months the world has remained fixated on a single number: 450 kilograms. That figure — referring to Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched...

22.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

‏Peiman Salehi

Indonesia’s foreign minister didn’t defend the flotilla detainees. He defended Israel’s language

Indonesia’s foreign minister didn’t defend the flotilla detainees. He defended Israel’s language

For years, Indonesia has wrapped itself in the moral vocabulary of anti-colonialism and Palestinian solidarity. Its leaders lecture the world about...

22.05.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Israel: From Neutralizing the Frontline States to Neutralizing the Axis of Resistance

Israel: From Neutralizing the Frontline States to Neutralizing the Axis of Resistance

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...

22.05.2026 70

Middle East Monitor

Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

The bell tolls in Beijing: Xi’s warning and the shadow of Thucydides

“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...

21.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The Geopolitics of Energy Algorithms: Who Will Control Oil Markets in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?

From oil wells to data power For decades, power in the global energy market was defined by oil reserves, production capacity, pipelines, shipping...

21.05.2026 70

Middle East Monitor

Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Dehumanisation, colonialism and its accomplices

Colonialism is dehumanising. It is something akin to a spectacle that several world leaders and ministers have partially woken up to that fact, after...

21.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Maps of a vanished world: The myth of containing Iran

Despite decades of maximum pressure, crippling sanctions, and diplomatic isolation, the geopolitical reality of the Middle East suggests a profound...

21.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Sovereignty, Palestine, and Power Vacuum: The Urgent Need for a United Arab Initiative

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...

20.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

India’s Gulf Gamble in a Fragmenting Middle East

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five-nation diplomatic tour across the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, and Italy from May 15-20,...

20.05.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Saima afzal

The Gulf Cooperation Council is shooting itself in the foot

The most accurate portrayal of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is perhaps the 2017 Kuwait summit, which was held at the height of the...

20.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

As Trump Met Xi, China Was Already Sailing Under Iran’s Rules

Just before Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing, Iranian news outlets reported a significant development in the Strait of Hormuz: Chinese...

20.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Greg Pence

Indonesia must respond more forcefully to Israel’s detention of its journalists at sea

Indonesia has condemned Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Officials have demanded access to detained Indonesians and called for...

20.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Dishonouring Palestinian memory of the Nakba at the UN

Another Nakba commemoration has passed. At the UN, the rhetoric remains unchanged. It is chilling that even after a colonial genocide which Israeli...

19.05.2026 70

Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Beijing does not obey the empire, Tehran resists

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,...

19.05.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Sayid Marcos Tenorio