
Changing attitudes towards religiosity: A double-edged sword for Arab rulers
Public opinion polling in the Arab world suggests that autocratic leaders like Saudi Crown Prince…
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)…
Kamal Salibi, one of the Arab world’s foremost contemporary historians, kicked up a storm when…
Mohammed Simsim, the president of the Saudi Arabian Weightlifting Federation, embodies existential dilemmas involved…
If the Islamic State (IS) was serious about attacking Euro 2016, its plans clearly never…
The Muslim world’s battle over the legitimacy of political Islam has expanded to the…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dresses up his increasing authoritarianism with nationalist and religious overtones,…
Last month’s opening of storied Istanbul soccer club Besiktas JK’s renovated Vodafone Arena stadium was…
With Saudi Arabia announcing plans for a major restructuring of the kingdom’s economy and Iran…
Turkish soccer pitches tell the story of the country’s multiple sharpening fault lines that are…
Subtle changes in the way Qatar projects itself on the international stage symbolized by a…
Saudi Arabia is using soccer and its influence in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to…
Saudi Arabia and Iran, highlighting the domestic drivers of mounting tension that threatens to deepen…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suffered in the run-up to crucial elections in early 2016 what…
A staunch supporter of general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, has called on…