More: Saudi Arabia
Undestanding the Gulf States: The European Perspective
Mitchell Belfer is President of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre, a
Rome-based organization that is engaged in building political and economic
bridges between European countries and the...
Gulf wealth: All that glitters is not gold
Little suggests that fabulously wealthy Gulf states and their Middle
Eastern and North African beneficiaries have recognized what is perhaps the
most important lesson of this...
Playing Palestinian politics: UAE-backed ex-security chief weighs his options
A controversial former security official and Abu
Dhabi-based political operator, Mohammed Dahlan, has lurked for several years
in the shadows of Palestinian politics. Now, he could...
War in Yemen: Enough is enough – what else?
The situation in Yemen has recently taken a bad turn both for Saudi
Arabia and its allies from the so-called “Arab NATO” - countries, which
formally...
Aramco’s IPO: A bell weather of Saudi balancing between East and West
Saudi Arabia’s planned awarding of mandates for the
management of an initial public offering (IPO) by its national oil company
Aramco is likely to serve as...
Diverging Gulf responses to Kashmir and Xinjiang ripple across Asia
Recent diametrically opposed responses to repression of Muslims by
China, India and other Asian countries highlight deep differences among Gulf
states that ripple across Asia.
The different...
Business and boxing: two sides of the same coin
What do a planned US$15 billion Saudi
investment in petroleum-related Indian businesses and a controversial boxing
championship have in common?
Both reflect a world in which power...
Saudi Iranian rivalry polarises Nigerian Muslims
A recent ban on a militant, Iranian-backed Shiite
group raised the
spectre of the Saudi Iranian rivalry spilling onto Nigerian streets as security forces launched a...
Kashmir: A battleground for Middle Eastern rivals
Thought that sectarianism was a pillar of the Saud
Iranian rivalry? Think again, think Kashmir where the two countries’ geopolitical
rivalry and Turkish ambitions cross sectarian...
Muslim causes vs national interest: Muslim nations make risky bets
Saudi attitudes towards the plight of thousands of illegal Rohingya in
the kingdom fleeing persecution in Myanmar and squalid Bangladeshi refugee
camps help explain Saudi support...