
Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa


Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) spent more on defence than every country on earth except four, and when Iranian missiles came,…

Few Muslims would have wished for Saudi Arabia to “modernise” and reach the condition that it is in today in…

How Riyadh’s veto of an American operation in the Strait of Hormuz exposed the contradictions at the heart of Saudi…

Mohammed bin Salman gambled Saudi Arabia’s security on friendship with Iran and has now gone silent.

For nearly a decade, Mohammed bin Salman has worked on his facade. In public he is the reformer: Vision 2030,…

The missiles hitting Iranian soil since March 2026 are not Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) weapons. They don’t need to be,…

How Mohammed bin Salman reconciled with Qatar, accepted Doha’s continued links to Hamas and Iran, deepened Saudi Arabia’s military dependence…

Colonialism and imperialism have never required an army to be effective. If you take a quick look at history’s most…

The highly indebted MENA nations find themselves in the path of a debt storm spawned by internal inefficiencies, poor governance,…

The moderation MbS champions is not a theological opening. It is the final stage of an imperial project begun with…