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The rise of China in Middle East politics

May 25, 2026 Dr Ismail Adaramola

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The illusion of a political solution in Ali al-Zaidi and the Green Zone
- May 25, 2026 Karam Nama
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Forget Truman’s dog: The devastating new price of friendship with Tel Aviv
- May 25, 2026 Yvonne Ridley

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Escape or escalate: Trump’s tactical crossroads in the Iran conflict
- May 24, 2026 Jasim Al-Azzawi
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Acceptable till it wasn’t: Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Global Sumud Flotilla
- May 24, 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark

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German court classifies Jewish Voice as “extremist”
- May 23, 2026 Leon Wystrychowski
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Has the Flotilla finally exposed the West’s moral double standard?
- May 23, 2026 Kurniawan Arif Maspul
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The world cannot contain Iran forever outside the global order
- May 22, 2026 ‏Peiman Salehi
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Indonesia’s foreign minister didn’t defend the flotilla detainees. He defended Israel’s language
- May 22, 2026 Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
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Israel: From neutralizing the frontline states to neutralizing the Axis of Resistance
- May 22, 2026 Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini
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The bell tolls in Beijing: Xi’s warning and the shadow of Thucydides
- May 21, 2026 Jasim Al-Azzawi
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The geopolitics of energy algorithms: Who will control oil markets in the age of Artificial Intelligence?
- May 21, 2026 Dr Kamran Yeganegi
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Dehumanisation, colonialism and its accomplices
- May 21, 2026 Ramona Wadi
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Maps of a vanished world: The myth of containing Iran
- May 21, 2026 Dr Mustafa Fetouri
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Sovereignty, Palestine, and Power Vacuum: The Urgent Need for a United Arab Initiative
- May 20, 2026 Dr Ramzy Baroud
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India’s Gulf gamble in a fragmenting Middle East
- May 20, 2026 Saima Afzal
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The Gulf Cooperation Council is shooting itself in the foot
- May 20, 2026 Karam Nama
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As Trump met Xi, China was already sailing under Iran’s rules
- May 20, 2026 Greg Pence
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Indonesia must respond more forcefully to Israel’s detention of its journalists at sea
- May 20, 2026 Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
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Dishonouring Palestinian memory of the Nakba at the UN
- May 19, 2026 Ramona Wadi
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How does the petrodollar finance and encourage the US’s bullying?
- May 19, 2026 Ali Omidi
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Beijing does not obey the empire, Tehran resists
- May 19, 2026 Sayid Marcos Tenorio
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The UAE’s Fujairah bet: Export flexibility, energy security, and regional leverage
- May 18, 2026 Dr Umud Shokri
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Why the US–China Summit may decide the Middle East’s next war
- May 18, 2026 Kurniawan Arif Maspul
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After the war on Iran, the Transatlantic alliance rift grows wider
- May 18, 2026 Ahmed Asmar
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Egyptian forces in the UAE: Gains and losses
- May 18, 2026 Mahmoud Hassan
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The crisis of leadership in the West: From the charisma of ideas to the tyranny of public relations
- May 18, 2026 Karam Nama
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Iran, Trump, and the cracks in American power
- May 17, 2026 Ranjan Solomon
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Iran: China’s quiet hedging strategy in the Middle East
- May 17, 2026 Eko Ernada