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    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      How far should the Arab world go in normalising Assad?

      Sudan holds a lesson for those heads of state now beating a path to Damascus

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Saudi rapprochement with Iran is an exercise in buying time

      Washington is right to be pragmatic on China’s role in brokering the deal

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Bashar al-Assad
      The Syrian earthquake is not a free pass for Assad

      The president is positioning himself as a solution to the wicked problems he has created

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Unrest and unsettled leaders bode ill for the Middle East in 2023

      From Israel to Iran, there is a lengthy list of potential problems in the region

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Lebanon
      Lebanon’s constitutional void is an opportunity for regional players

      Not just the presidency but a slew of key positions need to be filled

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      US-Iran tensions
      Iran may have overestimated US appetite for reviving the nuclear deal

      The breakdown in negotiations is being welcomed in some parts of the Middle East but risks forcing Tehran into a corner

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    • Friday, 31 January, 2020
      ReviewHistory books
      Black Wave — how Saudi-Iran rivalry has unravelled the Middle East

      Kim Ghattas’s history of the Islamic world since 1979 reflects on what might have been

    • Friday, 29 March, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      States of indifference

      Some commentators claim Barack Obama prefers drones to diplomacy – but the jury is still out on both his foreign policy and presidency

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