The power of the street in Iraq and Iran
On Sunday 17 November in cities across Iraq tens of thousands of people came into the streets answering a call for a general strike. This comes after weeks of protest that have…
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Saudi Aramco poised to hit the market
On 3 November, after several false starts and nearly four years on from when the Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman first went public with his plan to sell off a portion of…
“All roads lead to Putin”
The Americans call the five day halt to Turkey’s military
incursion into Northern Syria a ceasefire, while the Turks prefer to call it a
pause. The Kurds call the incursion…
In memory of Jamal Khashoggi
It is one year since the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked
into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He did not come out alive. The day after
he disappeared, the Saudi crown prince…
Trump blinks and the Iranians talk tough
The latest twist in the Iran saga is the abrupt sacking by
President Trump of his National Security Advisor John Bolton. Bolton says he
resigned, Trump says he fired the…
A dangerous game: Qatar’s World Cup workers remain at risk
In April 2014 DLA
Piper, a London-based legal firm released a report entitled “Migrant Labour in the Construction Sector in
the State of Qatar.” Qatar’s government had…
Jousting in the Persian Gulf
Were you to ask me “will war break out with Iran,” I would
say after President Donald Trump’s recent tweet the odds are definitely leaning
to no. Why is that? Well let’s…
Iran and the US raise the stakes in a dangerous game
US President Donald Trump, together with his National
Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has vowed to
limit Iranian oil exports to zero. Or as…
Stealing a march: The UAE returns to Damascus, the Saudis stay home
The decision by the United Arab Emirates in December last
year to re-open its embassy in Damascus marked a march back from what had been
the somewhat equivocal anti—Assad position…
Dangerous nuclear games in the Gulf
One of the many challenges of covering the impact of the Trump presidency on global affairs is that in the constant churn of stories generated by his twitter outbursts and in the…
