Continental Landscape of Minorities in Asia
Many in Asia look at the Middle East with a mixture of expectation of stable energy supplies, hope for economic opportunity and concern about a potential fallout of the region’s…
The Disintegration of Yemen
Distressing as recent events have been in Yemen, a country torn apart by civil war that has led to a humanitarian disaster on a massive scale, the main outline of…
Putin Hi-jacks Syria’s Future
It’s a quite extraordinary situation, when you think about it. A leading Arab nation is having its future decided by three non-Arab countries. The three states that have seized the…
George Orwell’s 1984 Revisited: The Rise of the Civilisationalists
The rise of a critical mass of world leaders including Donald J. Trump, Xi Jinping and others In Europe, Asia and Latin America who are bent on shaping a new…
The US-China Struggle in the Middle East
China was one of the signatories of the nuclear deal with Iran. When US President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the deal in May 2018, the first visit made…
Chinese Encroachment in Central Asia and Challenges to US Supremacy in the Gulf
China and Russia are as much allies as they are rivals.
Algerian Soccer Success is a Double-Edged Sword
A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, and Patreon, Podbean and Castbox. It took Algeria barely two weeks to…
Iraq Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Glance at a map of the Middle East, and the geopolitical–cum–religious complications facing Iraq are immediately apparent. The country is like a wedge, forced between the two bitterly opposed leaders…
African Cup of Nations: PR Fiasco for Egyptian Hosts
Former coach and player Farouk Gaafar put his finger on Egyptian soccer’s fundamental problem even if his call for the military to take over and run the Egyptian Football Association…
The Poor State of Lebanon
Over the past few decades a rapacious predator has been consuming the political, military and administrative organs of the once proud state of Lebanon, until only the outer shell of…