Opinion & Analysis
Opinion articles and political analysis by Dr. Salem Alketbi on Gulf, Arab, Iranian and international affairs.
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UAE
UAE-China: Many strategic options
In July last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Abu Dhabi. The United Arab Emirates and the Republic of China…
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Debates of the FNC on the eve of the elections
The upcoming elections to elect the members of the Federal National Council have taken up a large part of the…
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Iran
Iran’s mullahs put international will to the test
What is going on in the Hormuz Strait these days is nothing but a litmus test of the will of…
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Iran
Gulf region: now for the hard part
Regardless of the course of the current Gulf crisis between the Iranian regime and the United States, the region is…
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United States
Is Turkey’s relationship with NATO over?
Turkey’s agreement to purchase the S400 missile system has raised concerns about its fallout for relations between Ankara and Washington.…
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Yemen
The role of the UAE in Yemen
Since the establishment of the state on 2 December 1971, the diplomacy of the UAE has been known as a…
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Tsunami of hatred
After the publication of my previous article, “Taking a stand against hate-speech” on the website Elaph, and the subsequent wide,…
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Iran
Crying over the collapsed nuclear deal
Nothing remains of the nuclear agreement concluded between the P5+1 group and the Iranian mullahs in 2015 other than its…
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Iran
The danger of international hesitation and helplessness
Faced with the Iranian mullahs’ regime’s decision to raise the uranium enrichment rate above the percentage set by the nuclear…
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Taking a stand against hate-speech: the way out?
My previous article titled “Taking a stand against hate-speech,” sparked off many questions and gave me the opportunity to learn…
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