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    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      World
      As autocrats deepen international ties, their opponents seek strength in solidarity

      Freedom and human rights activists call for global co-operation but there is little to celebrate

      A protester displays a picture of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked protests in Iran
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      EU immigration
      Courting Middle Eastern autocrats won’t solve Europe’s refugee crisis

      Their repressive rule is forcing thousands to make the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Iran
      Iran’s protesters are in retreat, but for how long? 

      The gap between each surge and decline in dissent is getting shorter. The regime knows this is only a momentary reprieve

      An unveiled woman joins a large crowd making its way to Mahsa Amini’s grave in Saqqez
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      As the world swirls, Saudi Arabia repositions itself as a global linchpin

      The kingdom finds itself assiduously courted as a new order starts to assert itself

      Joe Biden arrives In Jeddah in 2022. It is clear that the old world order is dead and that we are in the fractured interregnum of shifting powers
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      How far should the Arab world go in normalising Assad?

      Sudan holds a lesson for those heads of state now beating a path to Damascus

      Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (R) welcomes Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan to Damascus last week
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Saudi rapprochement with Iran is an exercise in buying time

      Washington is right to be pragmatic on China’s role in brokering the deal

      A funeral for fighters killed during clashes with Houthi rebels, in the western Yemeni province of Hodeida
    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Bashar al-Assad
      The Syrian earthquake is not a free pass for Assad

      The president is positioning himself as a solution to the wicked problems he has created

      Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma meet an earthquake victim in Latakia. Syria’s president, a pariah for the past decade, now has reason to feel confident again
    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Unrest and unsettled leaders bode ill for the Middle East in 2023

      From Israel to Iran, there is a lengthy list of potential problems in the region

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Lebanon
      Lebanon’s constitutional void is an opportunity for regional players

      Not just the presidency but a slew of key positions need to be filled

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran may have overestimated US appetite for reviving the nuclear deal

      The breakdown in negotiations is being welcomed in some parts of the Middle East but risks forcing Tehran into a corner

      Illustration of the eye in the pyramid from the US dollar note floating with white skulls in a red sea while a silhoutte of a woman in black robe and hijab walks past
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    • Friday, 31 January, 2020
      ReviewHistory books
      Black Wave — how Saudi-Iran rivalry has unravelled the Middle East

      Kim Ghattas’s history of the Islamic world since 1979 reflects on what might have been

      Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran in 1979 after the deposition of the Shah
    • Friday, 29 March, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      States of indifference

      Some commentators claim Barack Obama prefers drones to diplomacy – but the jury is still out on both his foreign policy and presidency

      President Barack Obama, right, with Richard Holbrooke
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