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UAE Targets Turkey and Qatar in the Mediterranean
Europe is progressively being sucked into the Middle East and North Africa’s myriad conflicts. As if wars on its doorstep in Libya and Syria...
The new Libyan crisis and Turkey’s presence in Tripolitania
It seemed that the Mediterranean region had been forgotten during the Cold War, where instead the Limes from Szczecin to Trieste was central -...
Will Gulf States Learn From Their Success in Handling the Pandemic?
The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic for Gulf states has done far more than play havoc with their revenue base and fiscal household....
UAE-Turkish Rivalry Wreaks Regional Havoc in Libya and Syria
The Saudi-Iranian dispute may dominate headlines but a similar rivalry between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates is equally wreaking havoc in the Middle...
Israel Shines in the Gulf Where Big Powers Falter, but That Could Prove Tricky
The Firefly, an Israeli-built loitering kamikaze drone, part of the Spike family of missiles that the Jewish state has sold to various European nations, may...
The potential dark side of the militarization of Gulf societies
The coronavirus pandemic’s economic fallout calls into question Gulf states’ ability to fund a brewing, costly regional arms race. That in turn could not...
Pandemic threatens to drive wedge into US-Gulf relations
It is early days, but first indications are that the global pandemic is entrenching long-drawn Middle Eastern geopolitical, political, ethnic, and sectarian battle lines...
World Expo 2020 Dubai promises to dazzle – and break new diplomatic ground
The first World Expo to ever be held
in the Middle East will take place in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates from
October 20, 2020, through...
The battle for Libya: The UAE calls the shots
This week’s inauguration of a new Red Sea Egyptian military base
was pregnant with the symbolism of the rivalries shaping the future of the
Middle East...
IRENA and UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry Sign MoU to Cooperate on Renewable Energy
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) Ministry of Energy and Industry, to cooperate...