The 36th NATO Summit, being held in Ankara this week on 7-8 July, takes place at a time of major geostrategic developments and crunch decisions about…

Greek researcher Irene Theodoropoulou calls Qatar 2022 “the Ghutra World Cup,” showing how the ghutra and agal—the traditional male headwear of the…

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani’s visit to Lebanon has concluded, but its effects are likely to endure for some time. It was his second…

In recent years, the climate phenomenon known as El Niño has moved beyond the confines of meteorological centres and into the calculations of…

These are interesting times for left-wing politics in the United States. The Democratic Party’s ageing centre-left establishment figures are still…

A clandestine meeting, a briefcase full of documents, a direct cyber intrusion. This is what one typically thinks of when one hears the word "spy" or…

After a ‘framework agreement’ was signed between Lebanon and Israel in Washington on 26 June, attention has shifted to its implementation. Sponsored…

In a musical landscape largely governed by two tendencies—an openness to fusion and collaboration or a retreat into tradition and conservatism…

Peru has become one of South America’s clearest political contradictions. Presidents fall, parties fragment, voters withdraw, and Congress repeatedly…

Libya has long been known for its oil. Since the first oil fields were discovered in the late 1950s, this “black gold” has underpinned the country’s…