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The UN decision to end MINURSO likely strengthens Morocco’s Western Sahara claim at the expense of the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. The Rabat–Algiers rivalry now shifts southwards.
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Politics · News Analysis
The UN decision to end MINURSO likely strengthens Morocco’s Western Sahara claim at the expense of the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. The Rabat–Algiers rivalry now shifts southwards.
Politics · Briefing
By courting both Tripoli and Haftar's eastern government, Ankara is positioning itself as the broker of a unified Libya, and the power behind whoever controls it.
Politics · News Analysis
Following a consequential election, Netanyahu’s Likud emerges as the largest party but falls short of a majority, leaving his rivals dependent on Arab parties and raising the prospect of a unity government, or another election in 2027
Politics · Iran
As Baluch guerrilla attacks grow bolder, Tehran’s grip on its neglected south-east looks increasingly tenuous. Despite mounting war rhetoric with Washington, the Islamic Republic’s most acute security challenge may lie within its borders.
Politics · Briefing
By courting both Tripoli and Haftar's eastern government, Ankara is positioning itself as the broker of a unified Libya, and the power behind whoever controls it.
Economy · Briefing
How a millennium-old, religiously sanctioned financial tradition replaces interest-bearing loans with trade, leasing and shared risk
Economy · News Analysis
As the world’s cameras fixed on France in recent weeks, protests and public angst of comparable grievances across the Mediterranean have gone far less noticed.
Economy · News Analysis
As the World Bank and IMF meet in Bangkok from 12–18 October, the Iran war’s economic fallout is straining energy-importing economies, threatening food security and testing how far the World Bank and Gulf states can go to cushion the blow.
Politics · News Analysis
Following a consequential election, Netanyahu’s Likud emerges as the largest party but falls short of a majority, leaving his rivals dependent on Arab parties and raising the prospect of a unity government, or another election in 2027
Economy · Briefing
How a millennium-old, religiously sanctioned financial tradition replaces interest-bearing loans with trade, leasing and shared risk
Society · Briefing
A $13 chicken wrap in Beirut has become an unlikely measure of how Lebanon’s economic crisis divides a city.
Economy · News Analysis
As the world’s cameras fixed on France in recent weeks, protests and public angst of comparable grievances across the Mediterranean have gone far less noticed.
Politics · Iran
As Baluch guerrilla attacks grow bolder, Tehran’s grip on its neglected south-east looks increasingly tenuous. Despite mounting war rhetoric with Washington, the Islamic Republic’s most acute security challenge may lie within its borders.
Security · News Analysis
Houthi advances in Yemen and attacks on Saudi territory are raising questions about the kingdom’s security and the crown prince’s authority. Regional powers with a stake in Saudi stability are watching apprehensively.
Politics · News Analysis
Egypt’s El-Alamein summit shows a dispute over water is merging with fights over ports, civil wars and outside powers.
Security · News Analysis
The ordeal aboard Flight 1073 reveals the Gulf’s reliance on foreign talent, the limits of regional diplomacy and the courage of ordinary people
Culture · Briefing
A sticky autumn ritual that yields a beloved cold-weather treat survives and thrives around the eastern Mediterranean
Society · Briefing
A $13 chicken wrap in Beirut has become an unlikely measure of how Lebanon’s economic crisis divides a city.
Culture · Briefing
Built through delay, borrowing and revision, One Thousand and One Nights was never one book, and never only Arabian.
Culture · Briefing
In the Levant, the olive feeds, employs and sanctifies, and each autumn it calls families back to the grove.
“Egypt was one of the earliest among the Islamic states to recover her ancient, unforgotten personality.”
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