Abdulfattah Khattab

More than two months after the bombing began, the US-Israeli war against Iran has become an uneven stress test for world economies, presenting them…

The moment that US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on 8 April 2026, markets breathed a sigh of relief after a period of acute…

In a world that increasingly depends on natural resources beyond oil, Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has dealt a significant blow…

In a world where more than 95% of international data flows through unseen submarine cables, the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab are no longer…

As the global economic fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to mount, the conflict is creating the largest oil supply disruption in…

It was always thus that cheap oil was bad news for the big oil producers. Yet despite the falling global oil prices, the Gulf Cooperation Council…

Throughout much of the 19th and 20th century, wars were fought over territory and access routes, whether by sea or by land. In some cases, conquests…

Young people today would find it hard to believe that their parents or grandparents could once only stay in touch with people through a fixed-line…

Reflecting on the year that was, the Arab world’s economic landscape offered a complex and somewhat contradictory picture shaped by shifting…

In the race for 21st-century technological dominance, most of the talk about resources has focused on critical minerals, by which most assume these…