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East Mediterranean Energy Projects Amid Israel-Hamas War
The Israel-Hamas war has brought to the forefront emerging challenges and new opportunities for energy cooperation across the East Mediterranean. Despite that the continuity...
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor: Revolutionizing Trade?
In September 2023, during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) was launched to much fanfare and hype. It...
King Abdullah of Jordan caught between a rock and a hard place
Jordan's King Abdullah is caught between a rock and a hard place. Hamas and its regional supporters, as well as Israeli politicians and vigilantes,...
The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb – Part 2
Part 1 looked at the region as a whole as well as Hamas’ standing in Gaza eight months into the war. Today’s Part 2...
The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb -Part 1
The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb.
The region’s most apparent powder keg – the risk of a regional conflagration between Israel and...
The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb
Generations in war-wracked Palestine, Syria, and Yemen have little, if anything, to look forward to. Moreover, discontent is mounting and could explode anytime in...
Gaza war turns Palestine into a potential Middle Eastern lightning rod
The Gaza war has turned Palestine into a lightning rod for mounting frustration and discontent in Arab autocracies such as Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria,...
Peace only possible with a ‘three-state solution’: The Hussein Plan
The Israeli rejection of the two state-solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ‘unacceptable’, UN-boss Guterres recently stated. However, after thirty years of peace talks,...
A Creative Minilateral Approach
Minilateralism, a relatively recent concept in international relations, involves small groups of nations cooperating to address common issues and pursue shared objectives. A creative...
Resettlement of the Gaza as a realistic pathway to the two-state solution
I propose the resettlement the people of Gaza in the West Bank in exchange for the permanent withdrawal of Israeli settlements and the establishment...