Syria in the Arab League
“We will not walk away to leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran. … The United States is not going anywhere,” bragged US President Joe Biden…
The Arab inaction
WITH the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, public opinion around the world is turning against the Israeli invasion. While protest rallies are sweeping across the…
Palestinian statehood key to Arab plans for post-war Gaza
As Israel keeps up its campaign against Hamas, Arab leaders are mapping out ways to support post-war Gaza, placing one major condition on their involvement: a pathway to Palestinian statehood.…
Saudi Arabia: a paradigm shift–I
It was in October 2018 that President Donald Trump is reported to have made a remark highly critical remark about the house of al-Saud. He had warned the Saudi king…
Saudi reset and the new Arab order
Arab and Persian chieftains have been playing war and peace around the Persian Gulf since the great army of the Muslim Rashidun caliphate dethroned a divided and decentralised House of…
Pakistan’s beleaguered economy: KSA seems a reasonable solution
Pakistan offers a world of opportunities due to its geostrategic location, agricultural potential, and wealth of minerals and natural resources. Moreover, it has a burgeoning young population which is almost…
As Arab Gulf starts opening to Israel, Palestinians face a reckoning
Israel’s rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East, analysts and critics say.…
Arabs ease Assad’s isolation as US looks elsewhere
While Bashar al-Assad is still shunned by the West who blame him for a decade of brutal war in Syria, a shift is under way in the Middle East where…
Whither is the Nawaz League bound?
Senior PML-N leaders who had gone to London to convince ousted prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif to make a strategic retreat seem to have failed in their effort. Considering the…
The Arab capital
What is an exhibition of Picasso and Giacometti doing in a fine arts museum in Doha, Qatar - an Arab capital - at a time when Syrian children are gassed…
