More: Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Not places for persecuted religious and ethnic minorities
A series of recent measures in Saudi Arabia and Iran that violate the
rights, if not endanger religious and ethnic minorities call into question
their moral...
Marriott International Signs Landmark Deal To Open World’s Largest Fairfield By Marriott Hotel In Makkah
Marriott International, Inc. announced that it has signed a landmark
agreement with Nahdet Al-Mashaer to open a 2,600-room Fairfield by Marriott
property in Makkah. The agreement...
China and India place risky bets on Muslim acquiescence to anti-Muslim policies
Last month’s Islamic summit in Malaysia failed to challenge with a bang
Saudi influence in the Islamic world and Muslim silence about repression of
adherents to...
2020 Forecast: Revealing the Future of the Middle East
Authors: Maria Al Makahleh (Dubovikova) and Shehab Al Makahleh*
“When I thought I had already reached the bottom, they knocked from
below.”-Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
This quote...
Ripples of 1MDB scandal likely to complicate Malaysian ties to key Gulf states
Disclosures of taped phone calls
between embattled former prime minister Najib Razak and a person believed to be
United Arab Emirate crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed...
Iran’s Middle East Strategy
A look at the map of the Middle East reveals three
major geographic regions: the Anatolian Peninsula (Turkey), the Arabian
Peninsula (Saudi Arabia) and the Iranian...
Soleimani’s death opens a door to alternative security arrangements in the Gulf
The US killing of Iranian general Qassim
Soleimani has further opened the door to a potential restructuring of the
Gulf’s security architecture.
In line with an Iranian...
US military strikes in Iraq stir regional hornet’s nest
The United States stirred a hornet’s nest that stretches far beyond Iraq
when it this weekend attacked an Iranian-backed militia.
The fallout of the US strikes...
2019 was a decade of defiance and dissent -The 2020s are likely to be no different
Like 2019, the new year and perhaps the new
decade is likely to be pockmarked by popular protest, particularly in the
Middle East and North Africa.
The...
Gulf security: China envisions continued US military lead
A first-ever
joint Chinese-Russian-Iranian naval exercise signals
that closer Chinese military ties with a host of Middle Eastern nations does
not translate into Chinese aspirations for a...