Egypt moves centre stage
by Neville Teller An unexpected piece of news broke just as the 14-day international COP26 conference on climate change drew to a close. The host for COP27 in 2022 is…
by Neville Teller An unexpected piece of news broke just as the 14-day international COP26 conference on climate change drew to a close. The host for COP27 in 2022 is…
by Neville Teller On October 25 Sudan’s military, under the leadership of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, seized power and placed the country under martial law. Less than a month…
by Neville Teller Lebanese with long memories are beginning to fear that the horrors of their 15-year-long civil war that began in 1975 might yet return. The country is split…
by Neville Teller On October 20, under the dramatic headline “Scoop”, on-line news provider Axios posted an exclusive story – details of a conversation held on September 27 between US…
by Neville Teller Bashar al-Assad, presiding over 70 percent of what was once sovereign Syria, is at an interesting point in his career. He is a living exemplar of the…
by Neville Teller Iraq’s election on October 10 saw the lowest voter turnout of any of its six polls since the 2003 US-led invasion of the country. All the same…
by Neville Teller The two main protagonists in the Iran nuclear deal issue – the US administration and the Iranian regime – are locked in a battle of wills. The…
by Neville Teller Where the US goes, much of the Western world follows – willingly or reluctantly, depending on circumstances. From the first days of his presidency Joe Biden started…
by Neville Teller Given the flurry of optimistic stories about future Egypt-Israel relations following the meeting on September 13 between Israel’s prime minister and Egypt’s president, a stark statement on…
by Neville Teller In the small hours of June 24, 2021 fourteen Palestinian Authority (PA) security officers burst into a house in Hebron, made for a room where 42-year-old Nizar…