When the first Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) was published in 2002, a star glistened in a vast, gloomy sky. The fact that a UN-sponsored report, authored by independent Arab scholars would receive so much attention in Arab media, was in itself a promising start. The fact that such terminology...

Iran is poised on the southern border of the Arabian Gulf countries after having swallowed Lebanon to the north through its divine party [Hezbollah] and settled in the veins of the wounded Iraqi state. What is left? Can Saudi Arabia be blamed if it takes the Huthist danger seriously and dealt with i...

The political outcomes of the Gaza war are yet to be entirely decided with any degree of certainty. However, the obvious political repositioning which was reported as soon as Israel declared its unilateral ceasefire promised that Israel’s deadly bombs would shape a new political reality in the regio...