Extraordinary Ways in Which China Humiliates Muslims
Bans on “abnormal” beards and even the name “Muhammad” CHINESE officials describe the far western province of Xinjiang as a “core area” in the vast swathe of territory covered by…
Fragility of Middle East Alliances Becomes Ever More Apparent
Three recent developments lay bare the fragility of Middle Eastern alliances and a rebalancing of their priorities: the Russian-Turkish compromise on an assault on the rebel-held Syrian region of Idlib,…
Egypt’s Economic Pain Is All in a Good Cause
Before the 2011 revolution that deposed Hosni Mubarak, Egypt had undergone a few reform periods between 1991 and 2007 in an effort to reduce external debt and expand the role…
Canada– Saudi Arabia: Questions about Saudi Concept of Sovereignty
The failure of Western allies to rally around Canada in its dispute with Saudi Arabia risks luring the kingdom into a false belief that economic sanctions will shield it from, if not…
What Trump Actually Said about Jerusalem
President Donald Trump’s declaration about Jerusalem on 6 December 2017 gave rise to instant and almost universal condemnation. Western governments saw it as an unnecessary provocation, guaranteed to set back…
Trump’s Israel-Palestine Peace Plan – Its Test Run
On 15 June 2018 senior US administration officials met with UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in New York to discuss US efforts “to promote peace in the Middle East and to…
Who Follows Mahmoud Abbas?
Reaching the age of 83 is no big deal these days. Centenarians abound. But Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is 83 with a long history of health problems. Some…
Egyptian Government to Discuss Draft Law Banning Child Marriages
The Egyptian Government is proposing a new draft law to ban child marriage, amending the previous 1992 law in order to have a larger impact on decreasing child marriage. The new…
PUK – Gorran Relations in Post Kurdish Referendum: A New Phase of Conflict in Green Zone
The Kurdish referendum in September 2017 not only lost plenty of gains earned since 2003, but it also brought about a deep political dichotomy between and inside the prominent political…
The Term ‘Arab World’. What Does It Mean Anyway?
Labelling 381 million people from 22 countries as monolithic ‘Arabs’ is misleading and inaccurate.