MbS: his psychology and lifestyle
Summary: @mujtahidd casts new light on MbS’s personal habits and psychology.
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Biden’s efforts to bring Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords
Summary: a leading security expert explains the strategy behind President Biden’s ongoing negotiations to have Saudi Arabia recognise Israel and argues that with time on the Saudi side a deal is not coming anytime soon.
Ethiopian migrants in the Arabian Peninsula: trapped between Saudi and Yemeni hostility
Summary: the Saudi response to an influx of Ethiopian migrants has been to launch a brutal campaign of mass murder, rape and torture driving migrants who survive back into Yemen where they face further atrocities from all sides in the Yemen conflict.
Of fathers and daughters
Summary: a Moroccan father grieves for his daughter; a Bahraini daughter risks all to save her father.
BRICS without straw
Summary: Beijing’s overarching desire to defend its governance model domestically, especially at a time when it is facing sustained economic headwinds, calls into question the benefits of BRICS membership for traditional US allies in the MENA region.
Palestine and a looming food crisis
Summary: Republicans in Washington have invoked an arcane device to withhold urgently needed humanitarian food aid to Palestinians.
Arab Digest’s New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #1
Summary: Mohammed bin Zayed has diligently, carefully and quietly built his small Gulf state into a regional powerhouse. Matthew Hedges analyses how he has done that.
Arab Digest’s New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #3
Summary: Egypt’s President Sisi has locked his nation and his own fate into a tight embrace with the military, one that is inflicting huge damage on the majority of Egyptians and saddling the country with a massive debt load.
Arab Digest’s New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #4
Summary: a transcript edited for length and clarity of our 9 September 2022 podcast with Dr Elisabeth Kendall, an expert on Yemen and militant jihadist movements.
Arab Digest’s New Top Ten Podcast Countdown: #5
Summary: in an assessment that time has shown to be unerringly accurate, a leading American Middle East expert delineated the Kais Saied coup and the way in which the US and Europe stood by while Tunisian democracy was dismantled.