
Saudi columnists bolster calls for reform of Muslim religious law.
Taliban bans on women’s education and employment by foreign aid organisations operating in Afghanistan are having…
Taliban bans on women’s education and employment by foreign aid organisations operating in Afghanistan are having…
A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown new life into Turkey’s vision of a Turkic world…
President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with…
These are heady days for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. With King Salman…
MBZ refused to meet CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie in February because it had taken…
Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the…
Qatar has begun to cleanse its schoolbooks of supremacist, racist or derogatory references as well…
Long banned, Christmas has finally, at least tacitly, arrived in Saudi Arabia; just don’t use…
Pakistani efforts to exploit the Taliban victory in Afghanistan threaten to reinforce ultra-conservative inclinations in…
US President Joe Biden may have little appetite for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking but seems determined to…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as…
Recent clashes in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan highlight Iran’s vulnerabilities as well…
Public opinion polling in the Arab world suggests that autocratic leaders like Saudi Crown Prince…
Israel knew the drill even before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boarded his flight…
Populated by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry waited back in…
An Israeli police officer in protective gear waits to detain Ultra orthodox men as they…
Syria’s announcement of its first COVID-19 case highlights the public health threat posed by war…
Chinese Russian military and geopolitical cooperation is flourishing – for now. If, however, the weapons…
The Iranian port city of Bandar-e-Mahshahr has emerged as the scene of some of the worst…
An attack on a military parade in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz is likely…
Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi won a second term virtually unchallenged in what is widely…
When Miguel Torres, scion of an iconic Spanish winemaking dynasty, described the impact of the…
Seventy years after its birth, Pakistan is struggling to get a grip on Sunni…
Valentine’s Day in Riyadh and Islamabad as well as parts of Indonesia and Malaysia…
It’s the pot calling the kettle black. As Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of seeking to…
Saudi Arabia, in an indication that it is serious about shaving off the sharp…
State Mosque of Qatar under construction, image by Omar Chatriwala via Flickr CC EXECUTIVE…
Long-standing Saudi efforts to dominate the pan-Arab media landscape appear to have moved into high…
Shot dead this week on a street in The Hague, Ahmad Mola Nissi may have died the…
Few paid attention to a rare protest in Saudi Arabia in late January 2011 as…
In the shadowy world of covert proxy wars, Iran is taking centre stage, both as…
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s recent disavowal of the kingdom’s founding religious ideology had a…
Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, the sovereign of the Malaysian state of Johor, does not…
Saudi Arabia’s long-awaited lifting of a ban on women’s driving, widely viewed as a symbol…
Terrorist killings at Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini bring into focus something Riyadh…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, by breaking off not only diplomatic but…
Cracks have appeared in a Saudi-led, US-backed anti-terrorist political and military alliance days after US…
Increasingly caught up in the Middle East’s multiple conflicts, Pakistan is struggling to balance relations…
Blasphemy has joined terrorism as a catchall phrase to intimidate, incarcerate and kill critics…
For Kuwaiti Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, long seen as one of the three most…
Pakistan is emerging as an important military player in the Gulf as its struggles to…
Iran, bowing to external pressure, has allowed women spectators to attend a premier international men’s…
Vladimir Putin gives Sheikh Tamim a falcom A Qatari decision to backtrack on minimal improvements…
The Palestine Football Association (PFA), in a first testing of Palestine’s ability to fight its…
Two high-level meetings in recent months involving senior military commanders and intelligence officials and/or top-level…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused world soccer body FIFA of allowing FIFA-sanctioned matches…
An Egyptian businessman with close ties to general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has submitted a bid…
Remarks at 2016 Exeter Gulf Conference This book project on Saudi public diplomacy using…
Abu Otaiba, the nom du guerre of a self-taught imam and Islamic State (IS)…