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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...
Defying authority: Arab, Russia and Pakistan protesters learn lessons of 2011
Demonstrators in Sudan, Algeria and
nations beyond the Middle East such as Pakistan and Russia are applying lessons
learnt from the 2011 popular Arab revolts as...
Politics & War: Is Saudi Arabia Joining Trump’s Ploy?
In quest of
seeking the support of the Arab Muslim leaders for international stance against
Iran, Saudi Arabia is hosting three consecutive summits at the holy...
Eyeing UK soccer clubs: Gulf buyers come with baggage
The bitter Gulf rift
between Qatar and its Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led detractors could spill
on to the pitches of English soccer.
A flurry of reports
suggest...