Middle East & Africa

Middle Eastern protests challenge debilitating Gulf counterrevolution

Much of the Middle East’s recent turmoil stems from internecine Middle Eastern rivalries spilling onto third country battlefields and Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led efforts to roll...

Russia and Angola: Cooperating On Trade, Arms Delivery and Natural Resource Exploration

Russia is ready to raise its full-fledged bilateral ties and strengthen multifaceted cooperation by signing a series of agreements with Angola, one of Russia's key partners...

Western Sahara: Round 3 into the final solution

A few days ago, there were the second Geneva talks clarified the discussion of the parties to the dispute of Western Sahara as a solution...

Honor Among Thieves?

When Michael Cohen, fixer for Donald Trump,  payoff-artist and jailbird-to-be, who starts 3-year prison sentence on May 6, branded his former boss a liar and cheat who...

Does rente hinder democracy in Algeria

A rapid look around the world demonstrates that few rentier countries can be classified as democratic states, especially those in the MENA region; therefore, scholars have suggested...

The fallacy of soccer’s magical bridge-building qualities

Imagining himself as a peacemaker in a conflict-ridden part of the world, FIFA President Gianni Infantino sees a 2022 World Cup shared by Qatar with its...

Syrian Coup de Grâce

The Middle Eastern land has a diverse blend of history with conflicts and developments in knowledge. Where on one hand Baghdad was considered as the realm...

The battle for leadership of the Muslim world: Turkey plants its flag in Christchurch

When Turkish vice-president Fuat Oktay and foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu became this weekend the first high-level foreign government delegation to travel  to Christchurch they were doing more than expressing...

Who Will Rebuild Syria: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

After raging for eight years, the violent phase of the Syrian civil war seems to be reaching its final stages, with Idlib as the last...

Here Are the 10 Young Africans Pushing Boundaries and Changing the World in 2019

Ten African women and men are part of a cohort of 127 of the world’s most promising social activists, business leaders, public servants, artists and technologists....

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