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This week saw the signing of the much-delayed Riyadh Agreement between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government of exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and the UAE-supported Southern Transitional Council (STC). The...
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The crocodile tears have stopped now that the world has yet again forgotten about the Kurds following the deals between Russia, Turkey, Iran, Syria and, to some extent, US...
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After another successful MEMO-hosted Palestine Book Awards ceremony, in which literature on subjects related to Palestine was honoured. I wanted to shed light on MEMO's willingness to be a...
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The winners of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced on November 1st in London, in recognition of authors and their contribution to the literature on the subject of Palestine.
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Middle East Monitor will be hosting the 8th annual Palestine Book Awards in London on Friday evening to honour and celebrate the best newly published books relating to any...
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Exactly two years ago, Saudi Arabia's firebrand State Minister for Gulf Affairs, Thamer Al-Sabhan, called for "toppling Hezbollah", promising "astonishing" developments in "the coming days", whilst maintaining that the...
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The tiny Gulf nation of the United Arab Emirates has long been known to punch above its weight internationally. With a native population of about one million and in...
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There is an old saying that "the Kurds have no friends but the mountains". Poetic, poignant and tragic; but not quite true. Despite the mainstream Western media lamenting the...
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The way that history has a tendency to repeat itself is intriguing. In Alfred Lilienthal's The Other Side of the Coin, published in 1965, he said that the "Soviet...
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Having failed to dislodge Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad after eight years of conflict and with the twin political processes of the UN and the Astana initiatives moving a step...
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The 14th century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun is famed for his treatise Al-Muqqadimah and is regarded as "the father of social science"; he wrote about the rise and fall...
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War, wrote the 19th century Prussian General and military strategist Carl von Clausewitz, is an "act of force to compel our enemy to do our will." This is an...
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On 14 September, state-owned Saudi Aramco's oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in the Eastern Province were the target of a sophisticated drone and cruise missile attack. The...
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It has been argued that the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam is closer to mainstream Sunni Islam than it is to the Twelver Shias who form the majority in...
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Omar Ahmed interviews Salah Al-Noud of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council
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The US' attacks on civilians in Yemen have taken centre stage on Twitter as social media users highlight America's actions using the hashtag #USAEnemyOfPeace. America has been supporting the...