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…
Neither Saudi Arabia nor market concerns dent Dubai’s real estate market
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. If real estate is anything to go…
The war between wars
by Neville Teller On the morning of Tuesday, December 20, missiles fired from fighter jets destroyed several weapons storage facilities and other infrastructure belonging to Iran’s local proxies in the…
Turkey and Israel in green energy partnership
by Neville Teller The tentative rapprochement with Israel, initiated by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Christmas Day 2020 has resulted in a major environmental achievement. On December 9, 2022…
Ronaldo’s move to Saudi Arabia: A game of one-upmanship
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. One-upmanship in Middle Eastern sports just wretched…
Changing paradigms: Israel’s far-right meets Christian nationalists
By James M. Dorsey Please click here to watch a video version of this story on YouTube. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s far-right, Jewish…
Iran in a ferment
by Neville Teller Iran is in a state of disruption unprecedented in the 43 years since the Islamic revolution, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, substituted a religious oligarchy for the…
Qatar was just the beginning as Middle East eyes Asian sports
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. This decade and beyond could be the…
China consolidates its grip on the Middle East
by Neville Teller China’s President Xi Jinping flew to Saudi Arabia on December 7 to host a Chinese-Arab summit there. The visit had been on the stocks for some…