James M. Dorsey A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Amid speculation about a reduced...

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

James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story please click here. Middle Eastern states see their ability narrow to walk a fine...

By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story please click here. Russia's invasion of Ukraine spotlights seemingly widening...

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

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

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

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 A recent dinner in Washington suggests that a seemingly forthcoming visit to Turkey by Israeli President Isaac Herzog...

James M. Dorsey Katherine Harvey, A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Saudi Struggle for Iraq, Oxford University Press 2022 Iraq has in the...

James M. Dorsey Controversy over the opening of Southeast Asia’s first Holocaust museum highlights differences in the Muslim world over...

James M. Dorsey Libya stands out as an example of a complex, internecine Middle Eastern and North African conflict in which regional and...

By James M. Dorsey How sustainable is Middle Eastern détente? That is the $64,000 question. The answer is probably not. It’s not for lack...

By James M. Dorsey Iran potentially could emerge as an unintended winner in the escalating crisis over Ukraine. That is, if Russian...

James M. Dorsey Russia's intervention in Kazakhstan contains a cautionary message for Gulf foreign ministers visiting Beijing this week....

James M. Dorsey Like Qatar, after winning the right to host this year's World Cup, Saudi Arabia is discovering the pitfalls of seeking...

November 20, 2021 By James M. Dorsey Just in case there were any doubts, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu demonstrated with his...

November 14, 2021 By James M Dorsey The family of nations is balancing on the edge of an abyss as mushrooming religious and ethnic...

November 02, 2021 By James M. Dorsey Sudan is the exception to the rule in the United Arab Emirates’ counterrevolutionary playbook. In...