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Bedouin communities – Dispossession and entrapment

Bedouin communities – Dispossession and entrapment

As the war in Gaza continues to devastate Palestinian life, and the ongoing confrontation involving Iran, Israel, and the United States deepens...

yesterday 10

Middle East Monitor

Ranjan Solomon

The explosion inside Trump’s war machine: Joe Kent resigns

The explosion inside Trump’s war machine: Joe Kent resigns

Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s...

yesterday 10

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

Making humanitarian aid work for everyone but the recipients

Making humanitarian aid work for everyone but the recipients

The EU yesterday confirmed  €458 million in humanitarian aid for Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Palestine will receive €124 million...

yesterday 20

Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Selective Law and Convenient Outrage

Selective Law and Convenient Outrage

On 11 March 2026 two statements emerged from the international system that together reveal more about contemporary diplomacy than any solemn lecture...

yesterday 20

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait and Agricultural Shock

Blocking Fertilisers: The Hormuz Strait and Agricultural Shock

The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the...

yesterday 20

Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

The Original Sin: How Churchill’s Oil and Khomeini’s Vision Fueled Decades of Middle East Turmoil

The Original Sin: How Churchill’s Oil and Khomeini’s Vision Fueled Decades of Middle East Turmoil

The war in Iran did not begin with a missile strike or a declaration. It began in the sweltering August of 1953, in the offices of a CIA operative...

yesterday 30

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Why has violence increased among Egyptians?

Why has violence increased among Egyptians?

Minutes before iftar, Mamdouh A. (45) and his neighbour Sayed A. (63) were fatally shot during Ramadan following the renewal of a blood feud between...

yesterday 20

Middle East Monitor

Mahmoud Hassan

No time for losers: Why the war meant to save Israel may destroy it

No time for losers: Why the war meant to save Israel may destroy it

When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on 28th February, they appeared convinced that the war would...

previous day 20

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

Trump’s Iran miscalculation: When power meets a civilisation that refuses to collapse

Trump’s Iran miscalculation: When power meets a civilisation that refuses to collapse

Donald Trump’s confrontation with Iran appears to have been built on a fundamental misreading of the country he chose to confront. The assumption in...

previous day 30

Middle East Monitor

‏Peiman Salehi

Survival as Strategy

Survival as Strategy

Persian proverb goes, ‘A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.’ True to that maxim, Iran has...

previous day 10

Middle East Monitor

Sibra wassem

Trump fell into Iran’s trap

Trump fell into Iran’s trap

President Trump is not only failing to learn from history. He is also failing to learn from what is happening right now. This was not a small tactical...

previous day 30

Middle East Monitor

Tamer Ajrami

Iraq’s sovereignty dilemma between Washington and Tehran

Iraq’s sovereignty dilemma between Washington and Tehran

No modern state has suffered as much as Iraq in trying to define the meaning of sovereignty since 2003. Here, “sovereignty” is not a...

previous day 30

Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

Annexation without a declaration- Israel’s quiet seizure of the West Bank

Annexation without a declaration- Israel’s quiet seizure of the West Bank

Israel has not formally declared the annexation of the occupied West Bank. No dramatic parliamentary vote has proclaimed sovereignty over the...

sunday 30

Middle East Monitor

Ranjan Solomon

The architects of post-truth: How Netanyahu and Trump are scripting the Apocalypse

The architects of post-truth: How Netanyahu and Trump are scripting the Apocalypse

For decades, American foreign policy was built on a hybrid of realism, self -interest and idealism.  Today, it is being rebuilt on the hallucinatory...

sunday 30

Middle East Monitor

Dr Sahar Huneidi

Costly and Depleting: The Growing Problems of Operation Epic Fury

Costly and Depleting: The Growing Problems of Operation Epic Fury

The big drain on military resources has begun.  A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back,...

sunday 30

Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

Iran will not collapse: What the US–Israel War reveals about power in the Middle East

Iran will not collapse: What the US–Israel War reveals about power in the Middle East

The escalating confrontation between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other is often framed in familiar strategic language:...

sunday 30

Middle East Monitor

Eko Ernada

The Four Drivers of the Iran War: Rhetoric, Miscalculation, Hubris, and Two Conflicting Clocks

The Four Drivers of the Iran War: Rhetoric, Miscalculation, Hubris, and Two Conflicting Clocks

The United States and Israel did not stumble into war with Iran. They were driven into it — by the relentless drumbeat of political rhetoric, by...

sunday 30

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

Indonesia’s words on Al-Aqsa ring hollow

Indonesia’s words on Al-Aqsa ring hollow

Indonesia condemned Israel’s closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during this Ramadan with the language it has used for decades: strong rejection,...

14.03.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

War, Oil and Power: Could the Iran Conflict Shake the Petrodollar Order?

War, Oil and Power: Could the Iran Conflict Shake the Petrodollar Order?

As war spreads across the Persian Gulf, the first tremors are felt in oil markets. The deeper shock may come later — in the foundations of the...

14.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Prof dr. maszlee malik

The Economics Behind Wars

The Economics Behind Wars

War is not a violation of the international order. For a select few, it is the international order working exactly as intended; a machine that...

14.03.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Muhammad bilal malik

“Where are we supposed to go?” The road out of Dahiyeh and Lebanon’s forced evacuations

“Where are we supposed to go?” The road out of Dahiyeh and Lebanon’s forced evacuations

Israel’s blanket evacuation orders for Dahiyeh and southern Lebanon breach the core safeguards of Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 49) which...

14.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Tatiana Svorou

Israel-US and Iran War: A geostrategic transformation

Israel-US and Iran War: A geostrategic transformation

After the 12-day war in May last year, it was clear that both sides would be face-to-face soon. They restarted on 28th February 2026. Israel-US...

13.03.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Dr Zakir Hussain

Jerusalem at the epicentre of the Middle East crisis

Jerusalem at the epicentre of the Middle East crisis

Every year, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, millions of people around the world mobilise to mark the International Day of Al-Quds,...

13.03.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Lindsey Graham: A devilish warmonger in service of Israel and defense industry at America’s expense

Lindsey Graham: A devilish warmonger in service of Israel and defense industry at America’s expense

In the dark corridors of the United States’ power and politics, where morality is starkly traded for profit, and human lives are calculated as...

13.03.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Ahmed Asmar

Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure of the Strait of Hormuz

Existential Attrition: Iran’s Closure of the Strait of Hormuz

“The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic...

13.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

War with Iran: How it began, how it may end, and the future of alliances in West Asia

War with Iran: How it began, how it may end, and the future of alliances in West Asia

War rarely begins with a single event. More often than not, it emerges from years of mounting tensions, failed diplomacy and strategic...

13.03.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Reza Asadian

The prophecy and the profiteers: How Lindsey Graham, Paula White-Cain and Netanyahu sold America a holy war

The prophecy and the profiteers: How Lindsey Graham, Paula White-Cain and Netanyahu sold America a holy war

In mid-February 2026, Senator Lindsey Graham stood before cameras in Tel Aviv and delivered what he called one of his ‘most consequential messages...

13.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr Sahar Huneidi

Is Israel becoming a strategic liability for the US?

Is Israel becoming a strategic liability for the US?

Indicators are mounting that the world is heading toward an era of multipolarity, signaling the twilight of the age of singular American hegemony and...

12.03.2026 30

Middle East Monitor

Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

Creating impunity through diplomatic statements

Creating impunity through diplomatic statements

Settler violence in the occupied West Bank is unacceptable, the EU and the UK stated yesterday. “Impunity for such acts risks provoking further...

12.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

If Palestinian lives matter, violence in Gaza cannot be normalized

If Palestinian lives matter, violence in Gaza cannot be normalized

Indonesian diplomat Aloysius Selwas Taborat recently responded to our article titled “Indonesia’s cabinet secretary is sanitizing genocide in...

12.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Gaza shows how the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is reshaping existing fronts

Gaza shows how the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is reshaping existing fronts

While most international analysis remains focused on the implications of the U.S.-Israeli escalation against Iran —from deterrence to the risk of a...

12.03.2026 20

Middle East Monitor

Mona hedaya

The war on Iran started with missiles, but oil price can end it

The war on Iran started with missiles, but oil price can end it

The war began with airstrikes and missiles. But the turning point may come from the economy. In this fight, Iran is trying to win by raising the cost,...

12.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Tamer Ajrami

Shadows of deception: False-flag risks in the Israel–Iran Conflict

Shadows of deception: False-flag risks in the Israel–Iran Conflict

The concept of a false flag operation, though often dismissed as the stuff of thrillers, is a recognised tactic in security studies and international...

12.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Greg Pence

The dangerous logic of false flags: How Israel could draw allies into a wider war

The dangerous logic of false flags: How Israel could draw allies into a wider war

Over the past ten days, West Asia has been engulfed in a conflict whose consequences are already rippling far beyond the battlefields. After the...

12.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Peter Rodgers

The Geography of Hope: Why Palestine is the Middle East’s Only Way Out

The Geography of Hope: Why Palestine is the Middle East’s Only Way Out

Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but, indeed, the entire...

12.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

Even off-hand talk about Israel’s nuclear option is obscene

Even off-hand talk about Israel’s nuclear option is obscene

The “real” chances of a nuclear hit-back from Israel, driven by desperation in an existential crisis, are generally considered low due to...

11.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Ranjan Solomon

Middle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War

Middle power nonsense: Australia, Canada and capitulating to the Iran War
11.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

Iraq’s militias: From guns for hire to checkbooks of power

Iraq’s militias: From guns for hire to checkbooks of power
11.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

Netanyahu’s lifelong obsession with striking Iran and his looming spectacular defeat

Netanyahu’s lifelong obsession with striking Iran and his looming spectacular defeat
11.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The objective of the Iran war is not regime change but complete dismantling of the Iranian state

The objective of the Iran war is not regime change but complete dismantling of the Iranian state
11.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Jawad Khalid

The Iran War: A product of American delusions and Zionist ambitions

The Iran War: A product of American delusions and Zionist ambitions
11.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr Hassaan Bokhari

Brazil´s Lula Warns the Middle East War Will Not Stop at the Region’s Borders

Brazil´s Lula Warns the Middle East War Will Not Stop at the Region’s Borders
11.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Eman Abusidu

A colonial choice: The Board of Peace, or the UN?

A colonial choice: The Board of Peace, or the UN?
11.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

Indonesia’s cautious response to the U.S.–Israel war on Iran

Indonesia’s cautious response to the U.S.–Israel war on Iran
10.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Governance in the rubble – why Hamas still holds Gaza

Governance in the rubble – why Hamas still holds Gaza
10.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Ranjan Solomon

Trump disappointed, Iran resolute: Leadership amid war

Trump disappointed, Iran resolute: Leadership amid war
10.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Jenny Williams

Starmer’s self-defence fudge: The UK’s growing involvement in the Iran War

Starmer’s self-defence fudge: The UK’s growing involvement in the Iran War
10.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

Response to Mr. Zulfikar and Ms. Aryanti: Palestinian lives matter

Response to Mr. Zulfikar and Ms. Aryanti: Palestinian lives matter
10.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Aloysius selwas taborat

Pressing challenges facing Egypt as a result of the Iran war

Pressing challenges facing Egypt as a result of the Iran war
10.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Mahmoud Hassan

Mojtaba Khamenei and the continuity of the Islamic Revolution

Mojtaba Khamenei and the continuity of the Islamic Revolution
09.03.2026 40

Middle East Monitor

Sayid Marcos Tenorio