As US-Iranian relations heat up, it is vital that the Arabs remain calm and strategic
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Often the incumbent president in US elections has an advantage. That may remain the case for Trump, but his unconventional presidency may lead to unconventional outcomes
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The Arabs are not the barbarians portrayed by their enemies abroad, but rather active participants in the contemporary global civilisation
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In recent years, populism appeared to gain the upper hand, sending the world into isolationist mode. But its ascendancy proved short-lived
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Progress can only be achieved by grappling with the hard questions, which is exactly what Dubai has done in the past half-century
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While the British appear stuck, unable to decide a way forward on Brexit, European power is being damaged on the world stage
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What seems from the outside a failure to reach a deal between Washington and Pyongyang is more likely just another step in a story that will see further chapters yet
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Democracy, so lauded as a pillar of the new world order, has proven problematic in recent years, leading to fragmentation and polarisation
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The Arabs should keep open avenues for cooperation and partnership with Asia as it becomes an economic centre of gravity in the world economy
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The choice of Vietnam as the location of the second US-North Korea summit is replete with significance
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Democratic practice itself has come under pressure in the wake of the Brexit debacle, with Britain’s ultimate fate vis-à-vis the EU unclear until now
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In this next year and beyond, Iraq and Syria are likely to return to the Arab fold, while Saudi and Egyptian dynamism continues to drive the region towards a better future
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The resignation of Jim Mattis is not just the departure of a senior official in the Trump administration, but the exit of a school of US foreign policy thinking.
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Some US politicians are rounding on Saudi Arabia, pointing to Yemen, while ignoring the toll of wars the US pursued
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The emergence of three poles in the world order appears to be the trajectory. The question is, how will the Arabs position themselves
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Abdel-Moneim Said reflects on what happened to one of his enduring interests, cars, amid parallel technological changes across the seven decades of his life
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Laila Murad was not just a unique artistic talent, she also epitomised that latent tug-of-war in Arab societies between the quest for modernism and the inability to shed the shackles of stagnation and the fear of the unknown
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Amid technological shifts, we may well witness not only the waning of a unipolar world, but the emergence of a tripolar one
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Despite being more antagonistic towards the press than any president in US history, Trump continues to control the narrative, ultimately getting his way
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Saudi Arabia and the other oil producing countries still have major roles to play in pursuit of stability in the region and beyond
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