Two initiatives send the clearest signal, yet, that China may be gearing up to play a greater political role in the Middle East. Touring the region th
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For the past decade Yemen has been torn apart by civil conflict, an extension of internecine strife that goes back much further. The main protagonists
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The Iran issue poses a real predicament for Joe Biden, as he takes up the reins of office. How can he fulfil his election promise of returning the US
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How have the Taliban, a known hardline Islamist group, come to be a significant world power, negotiating with the United States over the head of the A
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On 12 December 2020, Iranian authorities had executed Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian dissident and journalist who was living in exile in Paris since 2009, o
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Think the Muslim world is united in opposing Islamophobia? Think twice. Rising anti-Muslim sentiment in countries like China, Myanmar, and India as
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Joe Biden knows as much about the background to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as anyone, and more than most. Over the eight years 2008–2016 that th
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Normalisation is in the air. In the past few weeks Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced not only that he would like to have better re
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China would like the world to believe that the Middle East and North Africa region does not rank high on its totem pole despite its energy dependence,
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The name of the game is power politics. France was a major presence in the Middle East following the First World War, but has been on the retreat eve
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