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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Khalifa Haftar, the leader of the militias in eastern Libya, invited Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Head of the Presidential Council Muhammed Menfi, President of the House of Representatives (HoR) Aguila
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On Tuesday, Minister of Social Development Ayman Mufleh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Qatari Minister of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs Yousuf Othman to bolster cooperation in the areas
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Syrians in government-controlled areas of the war-torn country went to the polls early Wednesday to vote in presidential elections that are set to give Bashar al-Assad a fourth seven-year term. This vote
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A protestor has been shot dead and masses battered during violence at a rally in Baghdad where thousands assembled to request mandated accountability for the murder of prominent Iraqi activists and protesters.
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According to statements of the press from Spain’s Ministry of Interior and Ceuta local government sources, it was reported that 7,800 of over 8,000 irregular immigrants who came to Ceuta were sent
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The Tunisian Ennahda movement called on Tuesday for the opening of an investigation into the leak of a document that evokes an alleged coup by the Tunisian presidency against the government. What
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The tourism minister of Syria’s Assad regime landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The visit by the regime’s minister came as the first of its kind to the Kingdom since 2011. According
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The US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking arrived in Saudi Arabia to hold official talks on Tuesday. Within the context of his visit, he met with the Saudi deputy defense minister
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Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani visited Cairo where he met with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry as well as President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The visit came in a medium
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On Monday, May 24, Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani met with Sudan’s Sovereignty Council President Abdul Fattah el-Burhan, his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, nicknamed “Hemedti”, Prime
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Israel’s conflict with Hamas and unprecedented inter-communal violence at home have further complicated efforts to form a government, raising the specter of yet another general election, experts say. This could be a
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The Qatar National Bank (QNB) issued a statement on Tuesday indicating that former Qatar Finance Minister Ali Shareef Al Emadi has been excluded from the bank’s board of directors. The decision came
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his Middle East visit in Israel on Tuesday, anticipating to strengthen the ceasefire with Gaza’s Hamas and help haste humanitarian aid to the confounded Palestinian
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The Guardian Council, the top vetting body of Iran, announced that the reviewing procedure of candidates registered for the upcoming elections had been completed. As a result of the intense examination, only
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