Well done, America, you’ve crushed Daesh. Now what?
Of all the cities in the Middle East that have been flattened in the past five years, and the list is long, Raqqa has...
At last, some order in Lebanon’s finances
Political settlement in Lebanon has been brought back to life. This is because the Lebanese parliament has passed its first budget since 2005, the...
Jeddah Municipality cracking down on land robbers
Earlier this year Jeddah Municipality launched a major crackdown on land encroachers. They started by bulldozing the many walled plots of land that belong...
Virus crisis a wakeup call for all of us
It’s microscopic, fast and mysterious; an invisible, sneaky enemy that does not differentiate between old and young, rich and poor, strong and weak, whoever...
Al Qaeda’s love affair with the ayatollahs of Iran: my enemy’s enemy is my...
At a time when the Middle East is gripped by the bitter rivalry between the traditions of Sunni and Shiite Islam, the revelation that...
In a post Brexit world, GCC opportunity knocks
The Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman describes himself as a fan of Winston Churchill and likes to quote Britain’s great wartime prime minister’s...
Saudi crown prince is a force for moderation, unlike Tehran
This week, Iran’s state-owned media hailed the regime for supposedly being a constructive player in the region and creating hope for the younger generation....
Why Middle East needs an EU-like regional order
The UAE and Turkey last week exchanged accusations regarding Libya, with each party claiming that the other is a hostile, destabilizing force in the...
Time for a new Sykes-Picot Agreement to fix the Middle East
It's time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together.
The "contract" is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the...
Houthi advance displaces 70,000 as pandemic threat grows
It is difficult to imagine that the residents of Al-Jawf governorate in Yemen were living normally, with no real threats to their lives or...
