Saudi Arabia’s stunning sports acquisition blitz, alongside Qatari and Emirati European club purchases, may reshape the beautiful game, just not in ways Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other Gulf rulers like Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani...
Words matter. No more so than in legal settings.
Genocide is the word most associated with Israel's more than one-month-long assault on Gaza.
In response to the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel, in which at least 1,200, mostly civilian, Israelis...
Any homo academicus or academic human comes to contact with knowledge systems concomitant with power systems - political, economic, social, cultural, scientific and technological. A recent congressional committee in the United States had intered Presidents of Ivy League universities...
Israel has outlined plans for the post-Hamas Gaza Strip Administration. It wants total security to be ensured. Israel in this plan has proposed the Palestinian Authority to take charge of the territory with a multinational force to rebuild the...
A recent 27-year, four million-tonne liquified natural gas (LNG) Qatari export agreement with China, the longest in gas export history, highlights different Gulf state approaches to navigating big power rivalry between the People’s Republic and the United States.
Widely seen...
Posted on October 5, 2024 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
The US president Joe Biden sprang a surprise during a press gaggle with reporters outside the White House on Thursday when he essentially didn’t rule out a potential meeting with his...
Indians have suffered the severe consequences of risky migration. Reuters
Originally published in Firstpost 16 June 2024
Call it self-styled migration or export, the participation of Indian mercenaries in the Ukraine War in a distant land should be viewed with concern...
Hamas, the Islamist militia that controls Gaza, will likely emerge a victor regardless of how the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting ends.Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel, described by some analysts as the Jewish state’s 9/11, changes the dynamics of...
Middle Eastern battlegrounds are alive and kicking even though rivals seek to balance contentious relations.
Take efforts by the United Arab Emirates, and more recently Saudi Arabia, to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in from the cold in a bid...
By Lirar Pulikkalakath and Aleena Chacko
Photo credit: RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images.
Introduction
West Asia sadly remains a tinder box of interrelated and multiple conflicts that could explode at any moment if the state and non-state actors continue their aggressiveness. The...
