Donald Trump’s foreign policy approach to the Middle East, such as it is, is a wild zigzag of a ride…
Author: Bill Law
As the dispute between Qatar and the so-called Quartet – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt -…
Sceptics and critics of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, and I must number myself amongst them, have pointed to previous grandiose…
When Mohammed bin Salman first floated the idea of selling a portion of Saudi Aramco through an Initial Public Offering…
In April 2014 DLA Piper, a London-based legal firm released a report entitled “Migrant Labour in the Construction Sector in…
The latest twist in the Iran saga is the abrupt sacking by President Trump of his National Security Advisor John…
It is one year since the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He did not come…
The Americans call the five day halt to Turkey’s military incursion into Northern Syria a ceasefire, while the Turks prefer…
Two years and counting into the radical transformation of the Saudi economy known as Vision 2030, a key component of…
The age of impunity is upon us. On 20 November, in a statement replete with exclamations marks the president of…
I recently attended a seminar on the war in Yemen, sponsored by an Oxford based think tank OxGAPS. It was…
First to the good news, at least from the perspective of the government of Bahrain and its supporters. Despite an opposition…