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David Gardner

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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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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    Hizbollah
    Hizbollah is on shaky ground as Lebanon implodes

    Tribunal ruling on Hariri’s killing and Beirut explosion add to country’s instability

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    Global InsightArab-Israel conflict
    Israel-UAE deal helps Netanyahu and Trump, but not peace

    The two leaders each have political reasons to welcome the accord at a sensitive time

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Government of Lebanon
    Pity the ruined nation of Lebanon

    Beirut blast felt like a visit from the fifth horseman of the apocalypse

  • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
    World9 min
    Opinion: Beirut blast - Is Lebanon a failed state?

    'Countries aren't supposed to be able to go bankrupt - Lebanon has'

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Lebanon: a nation brought to its knees

    The country was already reeling from an economic and financial crisis before the massive port explosion

  • Wednesday, 29 July, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Wary US watches for signs of Chinese-Iranian alliance

    Speculation about a strategic partnership between Tehran and Beijing appears exaggerated

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Donald Trump’s allies race for gains in a combustible Middle East

    Regional brinkmanship is on the rise ahead of the November US election

  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    Emerging markets
    The Hagia Sophia decree is about more than religious chauvinism

    A move to turn the crown jewel of Istanbul into a mosque is intended to rally far-right nationalists

  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Lebanon’s elites scramble to avoid the reckoning for its debt crisis

    The government and the banks cannot even agree on the scale of the problem, let alone tackle it

  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
    Israel
    Israel’s Netanyahu seeks to have his cake and eat it too

    Helped by the Trump administration, he has changed the conversation about Palestine

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Syrian crisis
    Sanctions against the Assad regime are unlikely to help Syrians

    The supposed beneficiaries of the US Caesar Act will be pushed faster towards famine

  • Thursday, 11 June, 2020
    Turkish politics
    Seven reasons why President Erdogan looks vulnerable

    The Turkish leader is meeting frustrating setbacks both at home and abroad

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