On 6 June in Jeddah the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) and his Abu Dhabi counterpart Mohammed bin…
السنة: 2026
We journalists are often accused, and not without merit, of focussing on the negative and ignoring the positive. The good…
Amidst the turmoil of Donald Trump’s White House, uncertainty reigns over what this most unpredictable, irascible and ignorant of presidents…
With the announcement on February 5 of a major new energy deal, Saudi Arabia has sent a clear signal that…
I wonder if anyone reading this can imagine living in a state where criticism of the rulers results in life…
In 2017 the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman marked himself out as a Middle East leader to be reckoned…
For Donald Trump it was a carefully constructed and nuanced announcement: “I have determined that it is time to officially…
When Mohammed bin Salman first floated the idea of selling a portion of Saudi Aramco through an Initial Public Offering…
Sceptics and critics of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, and I must number myself amongst them, have pointed to previous grandiose…
As the dispute between Qatar and the so-called Quartet – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt -…
I recently attended a seminar on the war in Yemen, sponsored by an Oxford based think tank OxGAPS. It was…
Following a fierce war by proxy on the Syrian territory and a great drain on its resources in order to…