Middle East & Africa
Public decency law puts Saudi reforms in perspective
A newly adopted Saudi law on public decency helps define Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman’s vague notion of ‘moderate Islam.’
It also lays bare the pitfalls...
Why should China fully support Iran in Persian Gulf tensions?
According to many international thinkers
creating tensions in the Persian Gulf region by the U.S. also aims at
containing China and limiting Beijing’s access to energy...
Africa Awaits Russia’s Investment
Russia has
been looking to raise its existing relationship with African countries and
Afreximbank is now providing huge support in realizing that long term goal. The
bank,...
Istanbul, the Mayoral Election Rerun: A Turning Point for Democracy?
Despite state-sponsored and private efforts
to influence the outcome of Turkey’s mayoral elections on March 31 either
directly or indirectly, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
and his Justice...
Caught in geopolitical crossfire: Al-Azhar struggles to balance politics and tradition
When Pope Francis I visited
Egypt in 2017 to stimulate inter-faith dialogue he walked into a
religious and geopolitical minefield at the heart of which was...
The tension between Iran and the United States
At the beginning of last summer, precisely on May 8,
2018, US President Donald J. Trump carried out one of his old projects, i.e. to
explicitly...
Water Diplomacy: Creating Spaces for Nile Cooperation
The Nile
River is the longest river on the earth, with eleven nation states sharing it
and over 487 million people or about 20% of the...
Russia, Africa and the SPIEF’19
In 2019,
four African countries - Côte d’Ivoire, Lesotho Niger and Somalia - for the
first time attend the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF’19)
held on...
The economic summit in Bahrain won’t be about Palestinian-Israeli conflict
In less
than two weeks Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt will present in Manama the
first part of the long-awaited “deal of the century”, the peace...
Russia joins Gulf states in coaching Sudan’s military
Russia has emerged as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ silent
partner in assisting the Sudanese military’s efforts to weaken, if not defeat a
months-long...