James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. When the religious affairs minister...

James M. Dorsey Israel’s rapidly deteriorating relations with Russia contain a message for other Middle Eastern powers: attempting to...

James M. Dorsey The US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a geopolitical watershed. Its shockwaves continue to reverberate and are magnified...

James M. Dorsey Rather than push for an immediate improvement of strained relations with the United States, Saudi Arabia appears to be...

James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story please click here. Anti-Iranian protests in Afghanistan and the stabbing of three...

By James M. Dorsey A straightforward message emerged from this week’s meeting in the Negev desert of the foreign ministers of four Arab...

James M. Dorsey Three scantily dressed samba dancers wearing traditional feather headdresses laid bare the limits of social...

By James M. Dorsey The Ukraine crisis may constitute a more impactful, historic watershed than the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall in the...

By James M. Dorsey What did Russian President Vladimir Putin think when he ordered his troops into Ukraine? Ray Charles' 'Georgia on...

By James M. Dorsey Struggling to remain on the sidelines of the 21st century’s watershed war in Ukraine, Middle Eastern nations are...

By James M. Dorsey Emiratis celebrated their failure to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the United Nations Security Council as...

James M. Dorsey Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the international condemnation it generated contains key...

By James M. Dorsey It may be only a matter of time before Russian troops control the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and topple President...

By James M. Dorsey Israel and Gulf states struggle not to fall off the tightrope they walk as a Russian attack on Ukraine makes hedging...

By James M. Dorsey Food, far more than diplomatic relations with Arab states, could be turning Israel into a state rooted rather than...

By James M. Dorsey When Turkish finance minister Nureddin Nebati this week announced plans to encourage households to convert their gold...

By James M. Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has laid out an expanded Israeli strategy to confront Iran that appears to move...

James M. Dorsey When a Russian-led military force intervened earlier this month, it did more than help Kazakh President Qasym-Johart...

James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have drawn praise for social reforms that have domestically reduced the role of...

By James M. Dorsey Qatar has begun to cleanse its schoolbooks of supremacist, racist or derogatory references as well as celebrations of...