As the Idlib truce continues to hold, Vladimir Putin reinforces Russia’s dominant role in Syria.
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MENA post Covid-19
Posted on Categories PodcastsOman’s economy: collateral damage in the oil price war
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailOman faces deepening economic woes, heightened by the coronavirus and the oil price war. To find a way out, the sultanate may be forced to surrender its independent foreign policy.
Water shortage: another MENA crisis
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailCountries across the MENA region are facing severe water shortages yet have done little to ameliorate a shared problem. Will the Covid-19 pandemic teach them that working cooperatively is the only way to resolve a looming crisis?
Jordan’s Difficult Neighbourhood
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailJordan’s relations with Iraq, Syria and Qatar have improved. Iran remains hostile. With other countries in the region, the direction of travel is less clear.
Yemen: five years of war
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailOn the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Saudi-led coalition’s attack on Yemen, a war which has caused the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe continues unabated.
Saudi Arabia’s wars on three fronts
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailMohammed Bin Salman is fighting a war in Yemen and Covid-19. So was this the time to launch an oil price war with Russia?
MENA wars in the shadow of Covid-19
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailWill the global battle against coronavirus help to counter three major MENA wars? The evidence is mixed. Despite Covid-19 numbers rising dramatically in the Gulf states and elsewhere in the Middle East (with a particular concern that Egypt is both suppressing true numbers and showing itself dangerously unprepared) there is one ray of positive news. In Syria, one of the three major conflicts in the region, combatants have appeared much readier to accept a truce and to consider putting talks ahead of guns. In Libya, however, the warlord General …
Whither Dubai’s Expo 2020?
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailDubai had great expectations about what Expo 2020 would deliver. As Covid-19 continues its global onslaught now is the time to rethink those expectations.
Sudan’s economic struggles continue
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailAs a transitional government attempts to revive Sudan’s ailing economy, the military, supported by the United Arab Emirates, retains the upper hand.