Over the past 3 weeks, the Middle East has been witnessing what could be regarded as one of the most traumatizing events in its history; a blatant rebuttal of humanitarian principles in an act that will have ripples across the globe in the years to come. In the doctrine of Joseph Goebbels “repeat a lie...
Despite fears and distrust experienced in one form or the other on both the Saudi and Qatari sides over more than three years, currently there is an emerging strategic rapprochement taking form between them. Before delving more into the rapprochement, the strategic calculations behind this strategic rapprochement and the new dynamics among the key GCC...
Every summer, Iraqis protest a lack of power in unbearable heat, and every summer the government promises to do better. Yet, Iraq’s electricity issues persist. In recent weeks, Protesters have taken to the streets against the outages, particularly, in Baghdad and southern provinces where the effect was most felt. Most Iraqi cities don’t have a...
The Withdrawal After two decades in Afghanistan, the U.S. is pulling out amid increasing Taliban battlefield gains at the expense of the Afghani government. The biggest highlight of the American withdrawal operations over the last two weeks was abandoning ‘Bagram Air Base’, the main staging ground for U.S. military operations in the country. According to...
Located in the Indian Ocean about 340 km southeast of Yemen, the Socotra Island archipelago holds a very strategic location between Somalia and Yemen, being the largest of several islands extending east-ward from the Horn of Africa, while overlooking the critical route of trade moving into Bab el Mandab Strait. Socotra is in fact an...
Last month, the special US envoy to the Horn of Africa Jeffery Feltman commenced on an African Tour that includes Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan. The tour comes as an effort by the Biden Administration to address the complex crises in the Horn of Africa and on top of the list comes The Grand Ethiopian...
Whether you have been an avid follower of the Palestinian struggle throughout the years, or just a mere observer to the recent developments, it is with no doubt that you now notice a disruption to the status quo of the Palestinian cause, marking the start of a new chapter for Palestine. For long brutal years,...
The threat to evict Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah district in East Jerusalem had become a rallying cry for Palestinians and an emblem of the very unbalanced conflict between Israel and Palestine. This threat is part of a wider effort to remove Palestinians from East Jerusalem to reinforce the Jewish control of East Jerusalem. The...
The term “Sovereign Funds” appeared recently on a large scale in the Arab countries. However, the significance, mandates and targets of these funds remain unclear to the public. Among the most recent of these funds is the Sovereign Fund of Egypt (TSFE), which has moved rapidly since 2018. During 2020, especially in Q3 & Q4,...
Background and Context In 2019, seven states (Egypt, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Jordan and Palestine) signed a charter for an Egypt-based energy forum, giving formal status to a group that seeks to promote natural gas exports from the eastern Mediterranean and that Israel hopes will strengthen ties with Arab neighbors. The forum was the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) established as an intergovernmental...
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