Algeria will be holding the 31st Arab League Leaders Summit in Algiers on November 1 and 2, 2022. It is the country’s fourth Arab League summit that Algeria will be organizing since the country’s independence in 1962. The 31st Arab League leaders’ summit coincides with the commemoration of Algeria’s sixty years of active diplomacy. A narrative that has been pushed ahead since the election of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in December
Embroiled in prolonged and complicated conflicts with each other, Israel and Lebanon seemed to move toward a historic deal on the share of disputed maritime borders. The disputed area between the two countries is critical as these areas are expected to have substantial gas reserves. The potential gas reserves are vital for both countries for different concerns: Whereas Israel intends to consolidate its energy hub status in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Algeria will be holding the 31st Arab League Leaders Summit in Algiers on November 1 and 2, 2022. It is the country’s fourth Arab League summit that Algeria will be organizing since the country’s independence in 1962. The 31st Arab League leaders’ summit coincides
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Embroiled in prolonged and complicated conflicts with each other, Israel and Lebanon
The exhaustion of the air fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Demonstrations that started in Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was taken to
Abdennour Toumi: The latest trip of President Biden to Israel and Saudi Arabia left a sour taste in the mouths of analysts. However, it did break the old tradition of US Middle East policy. What are your thoughts? Massoud Maalouf: I personally think that President Biden did not do himself any favor with his trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia. Israel and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) were the big winners. Palestinians were disappointed. Biden was harshly criticized, even
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Abdennour Toumi: The media played a key role in mobilizing the first wave of Arab uprisings between 2010 and 2011 but played a far more negative role in the transitions which followed. What went wrong? David Powell: The mainstream Arab media, particularly the pan-Arab regional media, certainly played a role in promoting the astonishing spread of uprisings and revolutions that started in Tunisia in later 2010 and spread to several Arab countries the following year. In Tunisia, the protests against
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Abdennour Toumi: Energy policies in the MENA region are witnessing historic and important transformations. What are the repercussions of these developments on the geopolitical situation in the MENA region and on the economic relations with the major global and regional powers, such as the US, China, Russia, and the EU? Dr. Carole Nakhle: Any oil and gas producer ought to feel the pressure from the intensifying global fight against climate change, since to achieve the scientifically recommended reduction in carbon
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Abdennour Toumi: With the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, could you tell us how the relations between Moscow and Beijing would go from China’s perspective? Prof. Hanns Maull: China seems to have been surprised by the war and its dimensions, and it will find this conflict uncomfortable. China has a strategic partnership with Ukraine, which also takes part in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Therefore, China would like to see this war end with a stable peace settlement, but it has
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Abdennour Toumi: Twenty days have passed since the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out. What is your take on the geopolitical and geoeconomic impacts of this conflict on the neighboring countries and the rest of the world? Prof. Don McLain Gill: The unfolding situation in Ukraine has numerous political and economic impacts on the strategic calculations of states in the international system. The crisis has shown how many states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America continue to demonstrate their
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Algeria will be holding the 31st Arab League Leaders Summit in Algiers on November 1 and 2, 2022. It is the country’s fourth Arab League summit that Algeria will be organizing since
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Embroiled in prolonged and complicated conflicts with each other, Israel and Lebanon seemed to move toward a historic deal on the share of disputed maritime borders. The disputed area between the two
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A senior US source says that US Vice President Joe Biden has “no plans” to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at next month’s G20 conference in Indonesia, as tensions
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On Friday, the Lebanese energy minister said that Qatar is interested in collaborating with TotalEnergies and Eni to explore oil in two regions of the Lebanese seas. Walid Fayad said during a
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The preparatory meeting of the Qatari-Turkish Supreme Strategic Committee was held in Istanbul. The Turkish side was represented by Mevlut Çavuşoğlu, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Türkiye, while the Qatari
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During an operation in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian males, including a doctor. The Palestinian health ministry named the doctor as Abdullah
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun confirmed his country’s ratification of the maritime boundary agreement mediated by the United States and Israel, stating that negotiations had reached a “positive conclusion.” Aoun said on Thursday
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In response to US criticism, Saudi Arabia dismissed allegations that political motivations drove OPEC+’s agreement to reduce output by 2 million barrels per day. “Saudi Arabia does not politicize oil. We do
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Authorities in Iran claim that they have indicted hundreds of individuals in connection with “riots” as demonstrations over the death in detention of a young lady, Mahsa Amini, continue in towns around
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Lebanon and Israel participated in indirect maritime border discussions for two years, with the United Nations and the United States sponsoring and mediating the talks. On Tuesday, Beirut and Tel Aviv agreed
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman told US President Joe Biden on Tuesday that there would be “consequences” for Saudi Arabia’s backing of a production reduction by the oil cartel OPEC+ that has sent
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On Monday, anti-government demonstrations in Tehran moved to Iran’s key energy sector, endangering the long-term viability of the country’s religious leadership. Workers from the oil refineries in Abadan and Kangan, as well
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A Turkish official told AFP that this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a regional meeting in the Kazakh
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On Monday morning, suspected gunfire and explosions reverberated through the streets of a city in western Iran, one of the epicenters of demonstrations over the murder of a 22-year-old woman. According to
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