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The naval blockade has become conveniently modish, particularly when it comes to narrow straits of water where heavy international traffic and cargo...
The question sounds deceptively simple, but it cuts straight into the structural weakness of how Riyadh thinks about its national security, the limits...
Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship...
The most successful peace processes are often those that allow the stronger party to continue the war under diplomatic cover. Bombs fall. Ports close....
In politics, comparisons are not necessarily about drawing parallels. Rather, they are a way of exploring how ideas separated by geography and...
The election of Khalil al-Hayya as head of Hamas’s Political Bureau represents far more than a change of leadership. It signals the movement’s...
Normalising genocide was a way to normalise colonial expansion in Gaza. Only three weeks after Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich revealed...
The waters of the Bab el-Mandeb are running red with the blood of a failing international order. For the first time in modern history, two of the...
The recent disruption in the Middle East, including the closure and uneven reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, has exposed a shift in the global energy...
The militarisation of the Egyptian state has accelerated significantly under President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who came to power through a military coup...
The latest U.S. operations against Iran’s coastal regions, now extending through eight consecutive nights of strikes, follow a nearly forty-day...
In a tragic event on the night of 16 July, a fire tore through an orphanage in Algeria, burning 11 children to death and injuring 19 others, who now...
Britain has a new Prime Minister at a moment when history is demanding more than carefully worded statements. As Andy Burnham enters Downing Street,...
Something has detonated in Baghdad. Not a missile. A quieter blast, felt in bank vaults and cabinet rooms. Its radius may prove wider than any single...
On July 16, Indonesian authorities arrested a Palestinian activist named Abdul Karim Raed Miqdad. By the next morning he was on a plane to Cyprus....
Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and hydrogen technologies are advancing rapidly. But deploying them at scale requires enormous amounts of...
Because I belong to a generation that never lived through the era of Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri when he was truly Iraqi, I knew him as many others...
More than a thousand days of war on Gaza have destroyed far more than cities, hospitals and refugee camps. They have also exposed the exhaustion of a...
Madrid played host this week to a strange piece of theater. Ministers gathered to talk about rebuilding Palestinian culture — its cinema, its...
The Middle East conflict, particularly the long-running struggle between Palestine and Israel, has never been a distant geopolitical issue for...
Diplomacy is sometimes less the art of ending war than the art of transferring responsibility for it. Many agreements born in quiet negotiating rooms...
There is something revealing about the way Washington talks about international law. When the law moves against an adversary, it becomes the language...
There are scholars who interpret the world, scholars who flatter it, and scholars who quietly make it less cruel. John L. Esposito belonged...
The question circulating across Lebanese political commentary since the signing of the Washington framework agreement is straightforward: if Hezbollah...
Last week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) led a virtual visit to Al Mawasi,...
Mohamed al-Wahidi, 57 years old, a husband, father and grandfather, spent his days doing what aid workers do in a place with almost nothing left:...
President Donald Trump’s administration has been accused of waging war against Iran on Israel’s behalf. Israel had made no secret of its...
In Kuwait alone—less than 150 kilometres across the Gulf from Iran—the United States maintains a major military hub of approximately 13,500...
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general...
The concept of “corridor wars” describes intensifying competition among major powers over critical trade, energy, and transit routes in an era of...
Nations, like men, learn most from the wounds they survive. Japan learned twice. The first lesson nearly destroyed it. The second rebuilt it. Iraq has...
Humanitarian aid, wherever it comes from is, is becoming murkier. The only clear aspect about humanitarian aid is that each scheme announced signifies...
With the Iran-US ceasefire all but retired to the infirmary of international politics, Washington has conducted air strikes on Iran for a third...
For two decades, I have never been optimistic about the political order built in Iraq after 2003. My scepticism was not emotional but structural: the...
Indonesia eventually sent Foreign Minister Sugiono and MPR Speaker Ahmad Muzani to attend the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
Dear Madam al-Daroubi, Assalamu Alaikum — Peace be upon you. You have been thrust from the shadows into the world’s most unforgiving spotlight,...
As renewed U.S.-Iran clashes around the Strait of Hormuz threaten to unravel another diplomatic pause, an old Chinese proverb offers a useful warning:...
For decades, energy power has been measured by familiar metrics: the size of a country’s oil reserves, its daily production and the scale of its...
Donald Trump is not negotiating with Iran. He is negotiating with the humiliation of having failed to break it. Beneath the ceasefires, memoranda,...
History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it...
Sophocles put it in four words the Chorus never had to repeat: “Pride breeds the tyrant.” Twenty-five centuries later, two men who believe...
The Father Emir is gone. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who died on Sunday at 74, was the architect of modern Qatar. But that description, however...
There is a seductive myth that China and Iran are allies bound by blood and ideology, that Beijing would ride to Tehran’s rescue the way NATO would...
For more than a decade, Yemen has been viewed primarily through the lens of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Tehran’s support for the...
For decades, energy diplomacy in the region has been understood through three familiar dimensions: geography, natural resources and infrastructure....
When Massad Boulos, the US President’s Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, chooses to meet senior Libyan officials from both East and West...
At certain moments, a person transcends the self, and their voice becomes the voice of an entire community. This is precisely what is happening today...
Humanitarian aid is a failed paradigm, be it the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees or the Board of Peace’s scheming. UNRWA has...
The meticulously disorganised 250th anniversary of American independence was branded as the dawn of a new ‘golden age ’, with the...
Nations do not usually commit suicide in one spectacular act. They do it by acquiring a taste for poison and calling it policy. They rename moral...
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