Middle East Near You

It is another bad September for Israel in Africa. Sixteen years ago in Durban, Israel suffered a political blow at the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and...

The Kurds are known as the “world’s largest number of people without a nation”. There are over 30 million of them scattered around the world, although they live mainly...

On 5 June 2017 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain imposed land, air, sea blockade on the State of Qatar and started a coalition against it....

On 4 January 2014, the so-called Islamic State in the Levant — Daesh — declared its capture of the city of Fallujah in Iraq. There followed a number of...

Speaking on the list of demands put forward by the Saudi-led coalition against Qatar, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that “he hopes they will...

There is never a dull moment in the politics of the Middle East, says the old adage, and this week has been no different. After a lot of speculation,...

The ongoing blockade of Qatar led by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt has exposed the harshness of Middle Eastern politics. How did the situation...

Politics and egos aside, the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement on climate is likely to set a dangerous precedent. The dishonouring of agreements signed by predecessors...

At the end of his tenure as the President of the United States, Barack Obama gave a stunning warning about Donald Trump’s election campaign promises. Its gist was that...

The long awaited Hamas Charter was unveiled in Doha, Qatar, on Monday. The document has presented a number of policy shifts from the movement’s long held political positions. The...

The US and Britain have banned the carrying of electronic equipment bigger than a mobile phone in the cabins of airlines flying from a number of Muslim-majority countries. The...

The Humanitarian and Development Forum for Palestine (HDFP) held in Doha, Qatar recently brought a number of organisations to discuss the emerging sociopolitical and economic realities in the region...

Donald Trump met the Prime Minister of Israel in Washington yesterday. The meeting in the White House was followed by a historic press conference between the two leaders. It...

The ongoing territorial dispute between the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco is one of the manifestations of the unfortunate tragedies of the West’s...

The leader of the official opposition party in South Africa, Mmusi Maimane, visited Israel in December 2016 and his visit invited a huge backlash and criticism from the community....

There are two crucial elections coming up in Europe; Germany and France will be electing their chancellor and president respectively in 2017. In France’s case, there are a number...