Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, 1945–2026: A President in Exile, a Country Without Peace
Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi died Thursday morning at his residence in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, where Mr. Hadi lived…
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China will benefit from the Iran war, regardless of any deal between Trump and Tehran
China will not displace the US as regional security guarantor, but it could play an important role building a new…
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Bin Salman is taking Saudi Arabia back to the days of ignorance
Few Muslims would have wished for Saudi Arabia to “modernise” and reach the condition that it is in today in…
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Syria’s successful foreign policy masks a deeper risk
2025’s National Dialogue failed, its outcomes unpublished. But without a new effort to resolve internal conflicts, the country will remain…
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MENA Energy Recap, Q1-2026: Four Lessons From the Return of Tail Risk
Whether or not the war continues for the entirety of Q2, its impacts will linger for months, if not longer,…
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Pariah or Partner?
Instead of deepening its entanglement in the region, the United States should recognize the limited strategic importance of the Middle…
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Project Freedom and the Collapse of MBS’s Strategic Pretence
How Riyadh’s veto of an American operation in the Strait of Hormuz exposed the contradictions at the heart of Saudi…
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Killing of development leader exposes insecurity in government-controlled Yemen
Recent assassinations in Aden are likely to undermine confidence in the Yemeni government’s ability to maintain security for its civilians…
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Returning to Sudan: Everything Changed Yet Remained Exactly the Same
TIMEP nonresident fellow Mahitab Mahgoub returned for the first time to Sudan, almost three years after having left because of…
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MBS’s Losing Bet
Mohammed bin Salman gambled Saudi Arabia’s security on friendship with Iran and has now gone silent.
Latest Posts
- Seventy-Eight Billion Dollars Wasted and KSA Needed to Run to Islamabad
- Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, 1945–2026: A President in Exile, a Country Without Peace
- China will benefit from the Iran war, regardless of any deal between Trump and Tehran
- Bin Salman is taking Saudi Arabia back to the days of ignorance
- Battered but Still Standing, Egypt Tries to Weather the Economic Ravages of the Iran War
