The Middle East is barrelling towards a nuclear and ballistic missiles arms race.

Two suicide bombings against police forces in the Tunisian capital killed a police officer and wounded eight other security personnel and civilians on Thursday, 27 June 2019. The attacks come…

When Pope Francis I visited Egypt in 2017 to stimulate inter-faith dialogue he walked into a religious and geopolitical minefield at the heart of which was Al-Azhar, one of the…

Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi was buried without a funeral. The son of former Egyptian president Morsi confirmed on his Facebook page on 18 June 2019 that “his father was…

Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi dies at the age of 67 in Cairo after collapsing in court on Monday. Several media sources reported that Morsi collapsed in a glass cage…

The years of internal conflict that followed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his regime in Iraq in 2003 have at last been succeeded by a degree of precarious stability.

While the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has lost control of its statelet in Iraq and Syria, the war against the remnants of the organization is not over, despite President Trump’s…

A public apology by a prominent Salafi scholar sheds a light on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s version of ‘moderate Islam,’ his effort to shape the Middle East and…

May 2019 has seen a marked deterioration in the long-running US-Iran standoff.  Back on 8 May Washington announced it had acquired credible intelligence suggesting a possible Iranian attack on US troops on…

Results of a recent annual survey of Arab youth concerns about their future suggest that Arab autocracies have yet to deliver expected public services and goods, explain autocratic efforts to…