News on politics, security and defence in the Middle East and North Africa
By James M. Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is mulling a proposal for the post-war administration of Gaza that would put the battle to define moderate Islam in…
By James M. Dorsey Gulf investment in European soccer threatens to become a hot potato. That is if the European Union’s competition authorities decide to investigate assertions by Spain’s top…
It was on May 20, 2024 that Karim Khan KC, a British jurist and chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), applied to the…
I By James M. Dorsey Israel’s self-declared safe zones trap the Jewish state in the contradictions of its nine-month-long failed campaign to destroy Hamas. It’s one and one is two…
By James M. Dorsey This year, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli hit the road. Not to shore up Diaspora Jewish support for Israel’s war on Gaza or reassure Jews…
The past few decades—since 9/11 in particular—have seen the increasing prominence of ‘moderate Islam’ in the public sphere. But who gets to define what this term means? How are these…
By James M. Dorsey The images of Israel’s reduction of Gaza to a pile of rubble and destructive West Bank raids speak as much about the Strip’s devastation and Israeli…
By James Dorsey The coming days and weeks will clarify whether the Biden administration has succeeded in bridging the yawning gap that has dogged the ceasefire efforts for months or…
New soccer stadium seals marriage between Gulf capital and Egyptian crony capitalism By James M. Dorsey A one-time revolutionary Egyptian force, the storied Egyptian soccer club Al Ahly FC is…
By James M. Dorsey There’s a silver lining for Egypt in the Gaza war. Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, much like his predecessors, would like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be…