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Ziyad Motala

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Not radicalism but rivalry: Why autocrats fear the Brotherhood

Not radicalism but rivalry: Why autocrats fear the Brotherhood
saturday 30

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Rented Power, Borrowed Strength: The Illusion of Gulf Power in War

Rented Power, Borrowed Strength: The Illusion of Gulf Power in War

There is increasing talk of Gulf monarchies entering a war with Iran. This prospect invites not admiration but scrutiny. It would expose, in stark and...

05.04.2026 60

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Bribes, bombs and blind eyes: The West’s war on principle

There is something tragic about the present moment, a theatre of contradictions staged around the attack on Iran, so brazen that one is tempted to...

23.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

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...

17.03.2026 50

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Teaching international law in an age that no longer pretends to obey it

14.01.2026 100

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

We just witnessed power kidnapping the law

04.01.2026 100

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

Never again, except for Palestinians: The moral realignment

29.12.2025 30

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

FIFA’s moral collapse: The day FIFA forgot what peace means

11.12.2025 70

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

In Mamdani’s win, New York has reclaimed democracy from those who sold it

05.11.2025 70

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

Van Jones and the moral vacancy of American commentary on Gaza

08.10.2025 100

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

Britain, Canada and Australia’s hollow recognition: Recognition without consequence

22.09.2025 30

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Israel’s bombing of Qatar: A lesson in servility

10.09.2025 30

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

Courtiers in kufiyas: The grotesque spectacle of Arab “scholars” subjugation before Israeli power

10.07.2025 50

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

The desert pharaohs: Gulf monarchs, Trump, and the great betrayal of Palestine and the Islamic conscience

05.05.2025 30

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala

The US Constitution was not made to protect against Trump

The belief that the US Constitution can protect against despotism has always been an illusion.

26.02.2025 20

Al Jazeera

Ziyad Motala

The white man’s burden redux: Trump, Musk, and the fabricated persecution of Afrikaners

10.02.2025 60

Middle East Monitor

Ziyad Motala