Muhammad Hussein
Muhammad Hussein is an International Politics graduate and political analyst on Middle Eastern affairs, primarily focusing on the regions of the Gulf, Iran, Syria and Turkey, as well as their relation to Western foreign policy.
Items by Muhammad Hussein
March 17, 2018
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Muhammad Hussein Gone are the days when an innocent little cluster of Emirates lay on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula with a flourishing economy, an open-for-business attitude and the...
February 12, 2018
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Muhammad Hussein A century after the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic, the country is looking to celebrate its hundredth birthday in a way that has become popular throughout the Middle...
Live from #PBA17 - 6.30pm on Thursday, 23rd November
October 2, 2017
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Muhammad Hussein “We flew over the making of a new country which one day, if the Kurds weren’t betrayed again – as I rather thought they might be – would be...
September 4, 2017
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Muhammad Hussein As the pick-up trucks and black-clad soldiers of Daesh overran the city of Raqqa in northern Syria and declared the establishment of a new ‘Caliphate’ in 2014, the world...
Not all incidents in international relations are cataclysmic or game-changing; most are simply another thread woven into the web of history. The blockade imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia...
March 22, 2017
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Muhammad Hussein Iran: The great Islamic Republic, a state that has defied the West, the guardian of the Islamic world, the helper of the Arab world, and the saviour of Palestine....
January 21, 2017
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Muhammad Hussein Put yourself in the shoes of a country, economically rich, culturally diverse, and relatively stable in terms of government. Now imagine that a senior diplomat of a foreign country...
December 21, 2016
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Muhammad Hussein The Republic of Turkey has for over half a century been enduring a crisis of identities and a struggle of political association between Asia and Europe, the two continents...
![F-16 Desert Falcons from the UAE air force are lined up on the flightline after returning from a mission during the Red Flag training excercise with the US air force, on January 31, 2011 [US Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Benjamin Wilson]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_1-31-UAE-jets110131-F-3074W-082.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Gone are the days when an innocent little cluster of Emirates lay on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula with a flourishing economy, an open-for-business attitude and the...
A century after the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic, the country is looking to celebrate its hundredth birthday in a way that has become popular throughout the Middle...
Live from #PBA17 - 6.30pm on Thursday, 23rd November
“We flew over the making of a new country which one day, if the Kurds weren’t betrayed again – as I rather thought they might be – would be...![A Daesh soldier stands in front of people as they dig their own graves [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/isis-soldier-posing-in-front-of-people-digging-their-own-graves.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
As the pick-up trucks and black-clad soldiers of Daesh overran the city of Raqqa in northern Syria and declared the establishment of a new ‘Caliphate’ in 2014, the world...![U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Council/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170520_2_23786892_22315993.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Not all incidents in international relations are cataclysmic or game-changing; most are simply another thread woven into the web of history. The blockade imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia...
Iran: The great Islamic Republic, a state that has defied the West, the guardian of the Islamic world, the helper of the Arab world, and the saviour of Palestine....![Image of Shai Masot with Israeli ambassador Mark Regev at a Labour party conference (R) [Amir Chowdry/Facebok]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017_1_9-Shai-Masot-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Put yourself in the shoes of a country, economically rich, culturally diverse, and relatively stable in terms of government. Now imagine that a senior diplomat of a foreign country...![Image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan [file photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/tayyip-erdogan-11.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The Republic of Turkey has for over half a century been enduring a crisis of identities and a struggle of political association between Asia and Europe, the two continents...