Biden brings US diplomacy back to the Middle East

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1. Lebanon’s anguish grows
   

   Summary: With another prime minister gone and Hezbollah blocking the effort to end sectarian government, the people of Lebanon continue to bear a terrible price for the failures of political leadership....

2. Employment in Saudi Arabia – a new facade, but the same old master-slave relationship
   

   Summary: the kingdom received much favourable publicity when it announced major reforms to labour laws and the kafala system but the reality is little has changed and exploitation and abuse remain rampant. ...

3. Sisi’s house of cards
   

   Summary: the Egyptian president has built a debt-fulled economic house of cards that Maged Mandour argues is dangerously close to tumbling down....

4. Finally for Matthew Hedges, an FCDO apology
   

   Summary: the British academic Matthew Hedges has received an apology from the Foreign Office five years after he was unlawfully detained in the UAE, charged and convicted of being a UK government spy....