Associated Professor at Grand Valley State University and Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. The defining turning…
Year: 2026
On 5 June, the Gulf crisis wraps up its first year—a year that has witnessed major financial losses the involved…
By Ghazal Aryahi On the night of June 13, Tehran narrowly escaped a sweeping assault that, according to some estimates,…
Iran today is going through a critical phase—perhaps the most challenging since the signing of the nuclear agreement in 2015—after…
The game of cat and mouse that Israel and Iran are playing out is continuing along a dangerously escalatory route.…
First to the good news, at least from the perspective of the government of Bahrain and its supporters. Despite an opposition…
Two years and counting into the radical transformation of the Saudi economy known as Vision 2030, a key component of…
Empowering women in the Arabian Gulf states is nothing more than a deal or an attempt to alter the mental…
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…
After two consecutive years of shocks across the Middle East, Iran now presents itself as a besieged state relying on…
When their Gulf neighbours – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain joined by Egypt -launched a land, air…