The Saudi military intervention in Yemen against Houthi rebels has repercussions in the kingdom amid cracks appearing in the ruling families in Riyadh and United Arab Emirates. SAUDI ARABIA’S four-month…
For nearly fifty years the accepted mantra has been that only direct face-to-face negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians can yield a mutually acceptable settlement. That formula has been tested…
“What if” is a fascinating game. It forces you to use your imagination, think round a subject, probe possibilities, consider options. On July 11, 2000. Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Barak,…
“I walked to the field hospital under the bombs and in the bad weather to have my annoying shot” The12-year-old girl, a diabetic child in a field hospital waiting for…
The Economist recently highlighted the contrast between post-revolt Asian societies and Middle Eastern and North African societies in the woes of a prolonged, messy and bloody transition that is pockmarked…
Across today’s Middle East armed forces engage each other in constant conflict. The largest of the battlefields are Iraq and Syria; others include Yemen, Sinai and Libya. When combatants set…
Battle and bloodshed in a dozen places across the region, a breakdown of law, order and normal existence in large areas, hordes of terrified refugees fleeing from conflict and from…
Before the widespread use of the term globalization, and following the end of the Cold War, the field of international relations was briefly dominated by the short-lived concept of a…
The Middle East tends to enjoy a high-context culture whereas Europe tends to enjoy different levels of lower context culture in comparison with the Middle East. Here is what this…
A family in Syria tell their story of how they bought their son's freedom from the Syrian regime for 12 US$. Read the whole story!