The idea of an independent South Yemen was revived in the context of the summer war of 1994, launched by Ali Abdulla Saleh against his political partner in achieving national unity. The war brought about devastating consequences not only…

The idea of a bridge linking Egypt and Saudi Arabia was first proposed 28 years ago but did not make it past the planning stage until April 2016, when the project was revived in the framework of bilateral discussions between Egypt and…

The vision for 2030 which was launched by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, awoke hopes that have long been buried in the soul of Saudi women. Especially since the young prince’s comments ahead of the deployment of the visual…

A soon to be released IMF report on the economic situation in Iraq, poses three complex and problematic issues. Including the continuation of the civil war, “Daesh" (ISIS/ISIL) control on quite a few tracts of Iraqi territory that contains…

For quite a long time the activities of Al-Qaeda have been heavily influenced by the roles that the Yemeni State had adopted and experienced; in the long decades of the Yemeni state weakness there was an ever growing increase in the…

Paper’s Summary (abstract): This papers provides an overview of the US policies towards the middle east, and the surrounding mystery that confuses its allies and adversaries in the region, and displays Saudi Arabia and the Gulf's response…

The latest plummet in Saudi-Iranian relations, spurred on by the ransacking of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran by a group of protesters in reaction to the execution of Saudi Shiite opposition cleric Nimr Baghir al-Nimr in January, while…

The intricacies of the Yemeni crisis do not stand regarding the status of the war in which Yemenis pay the price heavily, but exceed the inability of the warring parties to return to former political box before the fall of the capital Sanaa…