More: Saudi Arabia
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...
Operation Car Wash blueprint spreading to Senegal, Saudi Arabia, Mongolia
Brazil’s infamous Operation Car Wash is an ongoing, massive
operation to investigate allegations that government officials under Presidents
Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula...
Maritime incidents in the Persian Gulf
On June 13
last, the US Fifth Fleet - stationed in Manama, Bahrain - received two
different danger alerts - one at 6.12 and the other...
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...
March to Tripoli, or a Third Civil War in Libya: Initial Results
The military offensive of the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field
Marshal (according to the House of Representatives sitting in Tobruk) Khalifa
Haftar on Tripoli...
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...
Who benefits most of suspicious attacks on oil tankers, tensions in the Gulf?
The events roiling the Persian Gulf in recent weeks and days have the
potential to affect everything from the price of gas to the fate...
Clerics and entertainment seek to bolster MbS’s grip on power
A public apology by a prominent Salafi scholar sheds a light on Saudi crown prince
Mohammed bin Salman’s version of ‘moderate Islam,’ his effort to...
Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker
It was on the soccer pitch that 2022 World Cup host Qatar definitively
shrugged off the UAE-Saudi-led economic and diplomatic boycott of the Gulf
state as...