MbS: his psychology and lifestyle
Summary: @mujtahidd casts new light on MbS’s personal habits and psychology.
Summary: @mujtahidd casts new light on MbS’s personal habits and psychology.
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.
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.
Summary: a Moroccan father grieves for his daughter; a Bahraini daughter risks all to save her father.
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.
Summary: Republicans in Washington have invoked an arcane device to withhold urgently needed humanitarian food aid to Palestinians.
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.
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.
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.
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.