By James M. Dorsey On their way from Tel Aviv airport to Jerusalem in 1977 then Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin asked...

By James M. Dorsey For at least the last two decades, the United Arab Emirates, aided by some of the world’s foremost consulting and...

By James M. Dorsey A year of diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has proven to be mutually beneficial. The...

By James M. Dorsey Turkish state-run television appears to have not gotten the message: Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are burying...

By James M. Dorsey* A series of reports published by Washington-based think tanks populated by former government officials as well as...

By James M. Dorsey Prince Khalid bin Salman may not have planned it that way but the timing of his visit to Moscow last week and message...

By James M. Dorsey Israel’s first post-Netanyahu government is seeking to rebuild fractured relations with the Jewish Diaspora and...

By James M. Dorsey When Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid recently sparked a war of words with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki...

(Corrected version) By James M. Dorsey US President Joe Biden may have little appetite for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking but seems...

By James M. Dorsey Former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein has papered over a rare public dispute in the ruling Jordanian family in a move...

By James M. Dorsey Two initiatives send the clearest signal, yet, that China may be gearing up to play a greater political role in the...

By James M. Dorsey Amid Washington chatter about the future of US-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public...

By James M. Dorsey In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the bull’s eye of criticism of supremacist...

By James M. Dorsey The Biden administration’s publication of a US intelligence report that holds Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...

A little acknowledged provision of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program explains jockeying by the United...

By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia’s combustible mix of religion, nationalism, and tradition as well as contradictions in the kingdom’s...

This article first appeared on Play the Game 13.01.2021 Analysis by James M. Dorsey Hosting major sports tournaments can confer prestige...

By James M. Dorsey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new year, pledging to employ his country’s military to secure Turkey’s...

By James M. Dorsey A projected sharp reduction in trade between the United States and China in the next two years coupled with moves to...

By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia appears to be drawing lines in the sand as the kingdom prepares for a new era in relations with the...