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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
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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
Thursday, 30 April, 2020

Geopolitics
Failure of oil price war may cost Putin dear
Trump’s benevolence towards the Russian president cannot be relied on
Wednesday, 22 April, 2020

Middle Eastern politics & society
Benjamin Netanyahu draws another winning hand
New unity government gives Israeli leader the manoeuvring room he needs
Tuesday, 14 April, 2020

Oil & Gas industry
US-Saudi ties strained as Mohammed bin Salman reverses on oil
Crown prince gambled his political capital in Washington by flooding saturated market with discounted crude
Wednesday, 1 April, 2020

US-Iran tensions
Sanctions on Iran must be relaxed in the crisis
Ordinary Iranians and their neighbours should not have to die because of hardline leaders
Thursday, 26 March, 2020

Middle Eastern politics & society
Middle East may face an explosion of refugee Covid-19 cases
Movement of paramilitaries and pilgrims also make it hard to contain the disease in the region
Wednesday, 18 March, 2020

Benjamin Netanyahu
This may finally be the end of the road for Netanyahu
The question is whether Benny Gantz and the Arab Joint List can end the political deadlock
Tuesday, 10 March, 2020

Saudi Arabia
Crown prince strikes again with palace coup and oil war
Saudi Arabia’s rash but ruthless 34-year-old heir looks out of his depth
Tuesday, 3 March, 2020

Syrian crisis
War of attrition in Syria is spiralling out of control
The skies above Idlib are crowded with rival warplanes and drones with 3m civilians at risk
Friday, 28 February, 2020

ReviewNon-Fiction
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine — equality and a single state
Rashid Khalidi’s rigorous history is one of the great books on the Israeli-Palestinian question
Tuesday, 25 February, 2020

Lebanon
Lebanon’s economic crisis requires an urgent decision on IMF aid
The country is trapped in a full-scale emergency that could unravel social bonds
Tuesday, 18 February, 2020

Iran
Iran’s hardliners face a legitimacy problem
Disaffected voters could boycott this week’s parliamentary elections
Tuesday, 11 February, 2020

Syria
Europe could soon feel the fallout from Idlib
Turkey regularly threatens to reopen the refugee routes north for fleeing Syrians
Tuesday, 4 February, 2020

Syrian crisis
Russia and Turkey have fallen out in Syria
Although both are mistrustful of the US, their interests are not aligned