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The Arab Summit and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Riyadh on 11 November 2024.
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An Arab vision for regional security

From dependency to strategic agency

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 19 February 2026
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Finding a collective voice at the 2024 Arab Summit in Manama

Gaza is a top priority, but a confluence of factors means that now is the time to set up durable systems, including a regional security architecture. It all starts with having a collective Arab vision

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 15 May 2024
German ministers: Finance Minister Christian Lindner, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser pose with the National Security Strategy. EPA

Is Germany's first National Security Strategy all bark and no bite?

Since unveiling the strategy last week, the German government has been criticised for not articulating how it will put the strategy into action

Daniel Gerlach 19 June 2023
Diplomat and former Lebanese Minister of Culture Ghassan Salame poses for a photo session at the Palais Brongniart during the fifth edition of the Paris Peace Forum, on November 12, 2022. Getty Images

Ghassan Salamé: The birth pangs of a new world order

There are many reasons to believe that prevailing global order has ended, and we are in the throes of new world order, but it is difficult to predict what this new order will look like, says Salamé

Ibrahim Hamidi 20 February 2023
The US is eager to rid itself of the burden of bearing the main responsibility of ensuring the security and stability of the Middle East. Andrei Cojacaru

Biden’s security strategy reflects waning US interest in the Middle East

The US is eager to rid itself of the burden of bearing the main responsibility of ensuring the security and stability of the Middle East

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 05 February 2023
Saudi Arabia celebrates for the first time the Founding Day. (Getty Images)

Unity, Security Established in Arabian Peninsula After Centuries of Disunion

On February 22nd, Saudi Arabia celebrates for the first time the anniversary of the founding of the Great Emirate of Diriyah nearly 300 years ago. The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King…

Fayza Diab 19 February 2022
A container ship sails through the new section of the Suez Canal in the Egyptian port city of Ismailia, 135 kms northeast of the caital Cairo on October 10, 2019. (Getty)

Egypt Cements Red Sea Security in the Face of Houthi Threats

CAIRO – The Egyptian and French navies have just wrapped up maritime exercises in the Red Sea, having conducted a series of naval activities with participation by some important assets from the two…

Amr Emam 19 March 2021
Released students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, Nigeria after an attack by Boko Haram

Don’t Discount America’s Interest in Keeping Africa Safe

The Defense Department’s coming near-total withdrawal of troops from Somalia follows its 2019 re-assessment of its force posture in Africa, aimed at shifting finite resources to great power…

Maj. Scott D. Adamson 15 January 2021
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Why siccing Syria's army on Hezbollah is so dangerous

28 June 2026

If Trump's idea is implemented, it would all but certainly further undermine regional stability and US interests in the Middle East

David Schenker
Neil Webb
Science & Technology

The G7 grapples with the politics of AI access

23 June 2026

As advanced AI models become strategic assets, the G7 is confronting difficult questions of access, dependence, and control

Marco Mossad
Massad Boulos, Trump's Middle East advisor, speaks at the Libya Energy and Economic Summit at the Tripoli International Conference Centre in Tripoli on 24 January, 2026. MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP
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US plan for Libya: unification or management of division?

26 June 2026

A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?

Areig Elhag
Grace Russell
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The World Cup is helping boost the Arab hospitality sector

26 June 2026

Owing to time-zone differences, the tournament is creating a new spending cycle for cafés and restaurants in Arab cities

Mohamed Sharki
Culture & Social Affairs

Umberto Eco's 'Inventing the Enemy' as relevant as ever

22 June 2026

A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today

Antoine Jockey

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