Lebanon on a knife-edge
by Neville Teller The mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is due to expire at the end of August. The Security Council is expected to debate the situation…
Spain’s La Liga challenges Gulf states’ business model
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Middle East sports go global with politics in tow.
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The pursuit of peace in Yemen
bu Neville Teller Yemen is in the midst of a nine-year civil conflict which has left 80 percent of the population – some 24 million people, including almost 13 million…
Saudi Arabia and Israel put a high US price tag on diplomatic relations.
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Arab youth seek certainty in religion and tradition.
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Turkey seeks economic stability
by Neville Teller Turkey’s economy is in a bad way. In June the budget deficit, seven times higher than a year earlier, reached 219.6 billion lira…
Indonesia pushes a civilizational approach to countering polarisation.
An Indonesian push for a Southeast Asian return to values rooted in an ancient Indo civilisation amounts to an innovative attempt to manage polarisation. Exploiting its rotating chairmanship of the…
Is Unity between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority possible?
by Neville Teller In Ankara on July 26 Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hosted Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a “behind closed doors”…
Saudi soccer: A game of geopolitics and religion, not just sports
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