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- Just over 10 weeks ago, Rishi Sunak undertook an improbable journey from an audience with King Charles III to entering one of the most famous doors in the world. In becoming Britain’s third prime minister of 2022, he became the first British Asian to hold the keys to Downing Street and perhaps ...
- The first formal ministerial meeting between Turkiye and Syria in 11 years should be turning heads. Russia hosted talks last week between Defense Ministers Hulusi Akar and Ali Mahmoud Abbas. Is a rapprochement some form of a realistic 2023 bet? This is quite the turnaround given the decade-lon...
- Once again, a huge segment of the world is singing and reading about Bethlehem, that little town that sits silently in the holy land. Yes, at Christmas time millions celebrate events in this city, clueless as to the true reality of life there in 2022. The idyllic scenes of the biblical Bethleh...
- How will Arab states react to an Israeli coalition government populated by overt and semi-overt anti-Arab racists? This is a question for all governments to consider, Arab and non-Arab alike, but it will particularly tax those Arab states that have entered into diplomatic relationships with Is...
- As the FIFA World Cup reaches its climactic end, one cannot help but reflect on what an extraordinary political event it has been. Those who argue that sport and politics should be decoupled will have found it hard watching politics as an ever-present from the day Qatar was awarded the event ba...
- A census provides an extraordinary snapshot of how a country is or is not changing. The 2021 version for England and Wales, whose results were revealed last week, was no exception. But this once-in-a-decade tsunami of data and statistics brings with it a whole new series of battles in the cultu...
- These are uncomfortable times for Benjamin Netanyahu. He may have just won an election, but — having been the dominant political figure in Israel for so long — all of today’s political debate is not about him but those he is about to empower. On Friday, the incoming Israeli PM handed the keys ...
- When missiles landed in southeastern Poland last week, killing two people just four miles from the border with Ukraine, there was a moment of collective panic; of fear that NATO could be dragged directly into the war if Russia was held responsible and Poland triggered Article 5, the self-defens...
- This week, the likely next Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, should be presenting his coalition government. The tough horse-trading continues, but all eyes will be on which ministries his most extreme racist colleagues will get and what will be in the coalition agreement. How will the...
- Some 120 world leaders are due in Sharm El-Sheikh this month. It is time to ask, how is the planet faring? How has the global effort progressed since COP26 in Glasgow? For all its critics, COP26 did see some major agreements. States agreed to try and stick to the target of keeping global warm...
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