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By James M Dorsey Long banned, Christmas has finally, at least tacitly, arrived in Saudi Arabia; just don’t use the name in marketing or be ostentatious about your tree. Coffeeshops serving beverages in red…
By James M Dorsey Footballers with diametrically opposed views on homosexuality and alcohol consumption have sparked heated controversy about Islamic mores…
By Matein Khalid The financial markets gave a green light to risk assets after the December FOMC conclave because the Federal…
By James M Dorsey The crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly looks like a powder keg that…
By James M Dorsey Increasingly, compliance with US sanctions against Iran could emerge as a litmus test of the United Arab…
By James Dorsey A cursory look at Saudi Arabia and Iran suggests that emphasizing human rights in US foreign policy may…
By James M Dorsey The United States has signalled in advance of next week’s Summit for Democracy that it is unlikely…
By Matein Khalid Every time I noticed a Garuda flight in Jakarta airport, visited the ancient Thai capital of Ayodhya or…
By Matein Khalid I will never forget watching the 2006 soccer World Cup final in Berlin on TV with my two…
By James M Dorsey Russia hopes to blow new life into a proposal for a multilateral security architecture in the Gulf, with the…
By Matein Khalid Speculative manias in the financial markets invariably culminate in hysteria and greed run amok. So the 25% fall…
By James M Dorsey It has been a good week for United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed. Headline-grabbing, fast-paced…
By Matein Khalid I remember a time when Lebanon was called “le rêve d’orient” by its Francophile elite. This was definitely…
By James M Dorsey, When seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton wore a helmet this weekend featuring the colours of the…
James M Dorsey The family of nations is balancing on the edge of an abyss as mushrooming religious and ethnic intolerance…
By James M Dorsey Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki AlFaisal Al Saud must have gotten his tenses mixed up when…
Erdogan Becoming a Liability for Turkey By Manish Rai Last month Turkey made it into the grey list of the…
Matein Khalid The Middle Kingdom has been a black hole for emerging markets equitywalas since mid-2020. The PBOC kept monetary policy…
Matein Khalid Trend is your friend until the trend comes to an end. So this has been a fabulous year to…
James M Doresy Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism is having a field day. Barely three months after the Taliban claimed victory in Afghanistan,…
Matein Khalid In the winter of 2018 on the eve of a trip to South Africa with my close friends from…
Matein Khalid I have been a consistent bear on the Turkish lira from the time President Erdogan, a political populist and…
By Manish Rai The attacks carried out by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) aka Pakistan Taliban have increased to the highest level in…
James M Dorsey It may not have been planned or coordinated but efforts by Middle Eastern states to dial down tensions…
Matein Khalid I found this letter from Erin Bali, co-founder of Udemy in 2010, utterly inspirational (thanks ZoPa). It is available…
By James M. Dorsey Two separate developments involving improved relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and women’s sporting rights demonstrate major…
James M Dorsey Societal struggles and reform often take unexpected turns in vast swaths of land stretching from the Middle East…
Matein Khalid Today is the milestone moment for Manju and I as well as a special constellation of our close friends…