Below are all the Arab Digest newsletters going back to 17 June 2013
Summary: the killing of a five year old girl trapped in a car with her murdered relatives, pleading for help on her mobile phone, is testimony to the depravity of the genocide Israel has inflicted on the people of Palestine.
Summary: Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi faces a daunting challenge seeking to halt Iranian backed militias from attacking Saudi Arabia while simultaneously encouraging desperately needed Saudi investment.
Summary: though the world is seemingly turned upside down there are opportunities for clear thinking to emerge such as for Europe and North Africa to re-imagine relationships in a way that benefits both sides of the Mediterranean.
Summary: fresh US sanctions are unlikely to hurry the Iranians back to the negotiating table. But the current upward trend in the oil price and the consequent risk of permanent demand destruction may, in due course, subdue the hardliners in Tehran, especially if China is goaded by Washington into exploiting its ‘swing consumer’ status to push prices higher still.
Summary: Saudi Arabia continues a sweeping, top-down overhaul of its education system under Vision 2030, centralising state control, restructuring governance and integrating Israeli-linked AI technologies while reducing traditional religious instruction.
Summary: Iraq and Syria have long distrusted one another but economic necessities and the Iran war are leading to a warming in relations.
Summary: five MENA countries are on the Financial Action Task Force’s grey-list “for increased monitoring for strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, and counter-proliferation financing frameworks”. Getting off the list may be down more to politics than process.
Summary: a top GCC analyst lays bare the blunders and the security crisis the Iran war has provoked in the Gulf states.
Summary: Egypt was left out of the tripartite Mecca Pact signalling military weakness while military industries further strengthen their stranglehold on the economy; a militarised transportation system leaves scores of workers dead and injured; a luxury Mediterranean coastal project launches in the midst of a land compensation battle.
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