“After ISIS” Reviewed
With the experienced eye and pen of a journalist fully conversant with his subject, Seth Frantzman – the Middle East affairs analyst and op-ed editor of The Jerusalem Post –…
Is the Trump-Taliban Deal Dead in the Water?
Over the past 18 years there has been an armed insurgency in Afghanistan. It is being waged by the extremist Muslim organization called the Taliban, and directed against coalition troops…
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…