Middle East & Africa
Can Trump’s Offer for Summit lead to better Deal with Iran than JCPoA 2015?
The announcement of President Trump last week expressing his willingness to hold a summit with Iran with ‘no preconditions’, after a chain of threatening...
Can the US make Iran sanctions stick?
Recent Iranian trade figures suggest that the United Arab Emirates, a strong backer of US efforts to squeeze Iran economically, could emerge alongside China...
China- Africa Framework: Strategic Cooperation
The Forum for China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), built up to link relations between the two states, is due to hold its next meeting later...
Donald Trump’s Iran policy and the global order
This is a conversation between Dr.Sajad Abedi from Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth and Dr.Payam mohseni from Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Dr.Payam Mohseni is Iran...
Big power competition in the Eastern Mediterranean: Is Trump missing the point?
A Trump administration decision to sanction two key Turkish officials in retaliation for the continued detention of an American cleric coupled with unqualified support...
Building a nuclear industry in Africa
Russia’s nuclear energy diplomacy in Africa has hit stumbling blocks, it’s been at the crossroad over the past two decades after the collapse of...
Arab NATO: A US plan to curb Iran, deprive China, Russia from arms market
Research assistant professor in Qatar University believes that the US plan to form Arab NATO aims not only to curb Iran but also to...
Talking to Rouhani: Is Trump shooting from the hip or following a script?
Message to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Tel Aviv: Not to worry, US President Donald J. Trump has no intention of meeting his Iranian counterpart,...
30th anniversary of 1988 massacre in Iran
Thirty years ago in the summer of 1988 Iranian regime under Khomeini committed a crime unprecedented since Second World War. In a few months...
Terrorism under the Banner of Exceptional Humanitarianism
While many countries close its doors to migrants and refugees, an exceptional rescue has been offered to the White Helmets from southern Syria, at...