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David Gardner is International Affairs Editor at the FT, which he joined in 1978. He has been Chief Leader Writer, Middle East Editor, and an FT correspondent in Europe, Latin America and South Asia.

He writes columns, commentary and analysis, mainly on the Middle East

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  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    ObituaryAhmed Zaki Yamani
    Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi oil minister, 1930-2021

    Orchestrator of Opec oil embargoes who survived being kidnapped by Carlos the Jackal

  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Saudi Arabia
    Joe Biden’s ‘snub’ signals a reset with Saudi Arabia

    The White House distances itself from the kingdom’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    US foreign policy
    Joe Biden’s silent treatment of the Middle East prompts an outbreak of reason

    The White House demonstrates the power of not picking up the phone

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Egypt
    A decade after Hosni Mubarak fell, Egypt is a diminished state

    Promise of the revolution has given way to stifled dissent, reduced foreign investment and a decline in regional influence

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    US-Iran tensions
    New Iran envoy shows Biden is serious about reviving nuclear deal

    Robert Malley appointment marks abrupt break with Trump administration’s approach to Tehran

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Iran nuclear deal
    Reviving the Iran nuclear deal will test Joe Biden

    Tehran says the ball is in America’s court, but Washington first wants compliance

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    US foreign policy
    Joe Biden will find ample potential for acrimony in the Middle East

    The incoming president could face problems with traditional US allies such as Israel, as well as with adversaries

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Qatar’s rapprochement restores balance in the Middle East

    The deal with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other neighbours ends a three-year blockade of the emirate

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Joe Biden should learn from the Arab uprising 10 years on

    Tunisia is one of the few lasting successes but the west could help empower young populations and civil society

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  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    Turkish politics
    Turkey is Europe’s other major headache

    The EU relationship with President Erdogan has all but collapsed but there are ways to save it

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    US-Iran tensions
    Re-engaging with Iran will not be a simple matter for the US

    All significant actors in the Middle East are invested in the paramilitarism they want Iran to renounce

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    US-Iran tensions
    Killing of Iran’s nuclear scientist complicates Biden’s Middle East plan

    Ambush of Fakhrizadeh is a gift to Tehran’s hardliners and makes a deal harder for new US president

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi crown prince and Israel’s Netanyahu meet after Biden win

    There has been careful ambiguity about the move and the timing is puzzling

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Turkish politics
    Cocooned by sycophants, Erdogan sheds layers of reality and support

    Resignation of Turkey’s finance minister highlights how exposed the president is

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    US foreign policy
    Biden is likely to rethink much of Trump’s Middle East policy

    The Democrat is more sceptical of autocrats and is surrounded by people who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Person in the News
    Wilton Gregory, a fearless churchman

    The first African-American cardinal is close to Pope Francis’s thinking

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    Recep Tayyip Erdogan
    Putin tests Erdogan’s over-reach

    The Turkish president’s spat with France’s Macron has made headlines, but his rivalry with Russia is the bigger menace

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    Pope Francis
    Why the Pope might tacitly support Joe Biden for US president

    If he wins, the Democratic candidate would be the first Catholic in office since JFK

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    Lebanon
    Political elite finally tip the balance for many Lebanese

    After decades of conflict, occupation and bombings there is an exodus of professionals

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Visions of Mohammed bin Salman — the reality and the fantasy

    The prince came to power with the bold promise of transforming Saudi Arabia. Two fine books examine MBS’s breathtaking gamble

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    Iraq
    American threat to quit Iraq leaves its allies in the lurch

    It is strategically inept for the US to do exactly what Iran and its Arab proxies want

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    Turkish politics
    Erdogan is in danger of overreaching with foreign interventions

    The Turkish president would be mistaken to leap into a brewing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

  • Wednesday, 23 September, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Two-state solution is becoming a cause of the past

    Palestinians in the occupied territories may be forced to seek equal rights within an enlarged Israel

  • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
    Lebanon
    Emmanuel Macron lays down the gauntlet to Lebanon’s corrupt elite

    But the odds that the French president’s ultimatum will work are not good

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Middle East’s real ‘deal of the decade’ was not Trump’s

    The UAE-Israel accord is only a longlist candidate bested by the Iran accord, which may return

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