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David Gardner

International Affairs Editor

David Gardner is International Affairs Editor at the FT, which he joined in 1978. He has been Chief Leader Writer, Middle East Editor, and an FT correspondent in Europe, Latin America and South Asia.

He writes columns, commentary and analysis, mainly on the Middle East

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    If he wins, the Democratic candidate would be the first Catholic in office since JFK

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    Lebanon
    Political elite finally tip the balance for many Lebanese

    After decades of conflict, occupation and bombings there is an exodus of professionals

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
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    Visions of Mohammed bin Salman — the reality and the fantasy

    The prince came to power with the bold promise of transforming Saudi Arabia. Two fine books examine MBS’s breathtaking gamble

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
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    American threat to quit Iraq leaves its allies in the lurch

    It is strategically inept for the US to do exactly what Iran and its Arab proxies want

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Turkish politics
    Erdogan is in danger of overreaching with foreign interventions

    The Turkish president would be mistaken to leap into a brewing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

  • Wednesday, 23 September, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Two-state solution is becoming a cause of the past

    Palestinians in the occupied territories may be forced to seek equal rights within an enlarged Israel

  • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
    Lebanon
    Emmanuel Macron lays down the gauntlet to Lebanon’s corrupt elite

    But the odds that the French president’s ultimatum will work are not good

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Middle East’s real ‘deal of the decade’ was not Trump’s

    The UAE-Israel accord is only a longlist candidate bested by the Iran accord, which may return

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    Hizbollah
    Hizbollah is on shaky ground as Lebanon implodes

    Tribunal ruling on Hariri’s killing and Beirut explosion add to country’s instability

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    The two leaders each have political reasons to welcome the accord at a sensitive time

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Government of Lebanon
    Pity the ruined nation of Lebanon

    Beirut blast felt like a visit from the fifth horseman of the apocalypse

  • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
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    'Countries aren't supposed to be able to go bankrupt - Lebanon has'

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    Lebanon: a nation brought to its knees

    The country was already reeling from an economic and financial crisis before the massive port explosion

  • Wednesday, 29 July, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Wary US watches for signs of Chinese-Iranian alliance

    Speculation about a strategic partnership between Tehran and Beijing appears exaggerated

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Donald Trump’s allies race for gains in a combustible Middle East

    Regional brinkmanship is on the rise ahead of the November US election

  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    Emerging markets
    The Hagia Sophia decree is about more than religious chauvinism

    A move to turn the crown jewel of Istanbul into a mosque is intended to rally far-right nationalists

  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Lebanon’s elites scramble to avoid the reckoning for its debt crisis

    The government and the banks cannot even agree on the scale of the problem, let alone tackle it

  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
    Israel
    Israel’s Netanyahu seeks to have his cake and eat it too

    Helped by the Trump administration, he has changed the conversation about Palestine

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Syrian crisis
    Sanctions against the Assad regime are unlikely to help Syrians

    The supposed beneficiaries of the US Caesar Act will be pushed faster towards famine

  • Thursday, 11 June, 2020
    Turkish politics
    Seven reasons why President Erdogan looks vulnerable

    The Turkish leader is meeting frustrating setbacks both at home and abroad

  • Wednesday, 3 June, 2020
    Libya
    In Libya the west is strengthening its adversaries

    Halfhearted interventions have made a bad situation worse

  • Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Netanyahu has a chance to advance annexation plans

    The Israeli premier now has every motive to distract public opinion and move ahead with this pledge

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    Syria
    Family feud breaks apart Syria’s troika of power

    Rift between the dictator Assad and his cousin comes as victory in war looks close

  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Signs of Iranian retrenchment are likely to be overstated

    More probably, Tehran is trimming its sails to weather a violent political storm

  • Wednesday, 6 May, 2020
    Lebanon
    Lebanon’s economic ‘freefall’ warning is understatement

    The recovery plan is more forthright than previous Lebanese to-do lists but the bar is low

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