India could be this decade’s China
To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. This could be India’s decade if it plays its cards right.…
China and Israel – a waning relationship?
It was back in the 1990s that the Chinese began to realize that Israel was fast becoming a global technology hub. Previous frosty relations began to thaw, and China started…
Protest in Iran: A Middle Eastern déjà vu with a twist of irony
To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack…
Israelis and Palestinians do what they do best, but for the wrong reasons
To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has put Israel’s closest allies and some…
Shaping a 21st-century world order amounts to a patchwork
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. What do Moroccan arms sales to Ukraine,…
Dirty tricks ahead of Turkey’s elections
by Neville Teller The polls scheduled in Turkey for May 14, 2023 will combine the election of 600 members of the Grand National Assembly with the election of…
‘Saudi First’ aid policy marries geopolitics with economics
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. When Mohammed al-Jadaan told a gathering of…
Stepping back from the abyss: A conversation with Indian Muslim thinker A. Faizur Rahman
By James M. Dorsey Hindu Muslim relations are in a rout. Fear and prejudice have been weaponized. Hindu nationalists fuel intercommunal strife by emphasizing an imaginary demographic threat. Muslims believe…
Yemen’s peaceful future snatched away
by Neville Teller Over the Christmas period charities in their TV appeals showed pictures of Yemeni babes-in-arms and toddlers with skeletal limbs and lifeless eyes literally dying of starvation. Yemen…
Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows
To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Moderate Muslims and militant Hindu nationalists are strange bedfellows at the…