Opinion & Analysis
Opinion articles and political analysis by Dr. Salem Alketbi on Gulf, Arab, Iranian and international affairs.
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Extremism
Toward a Global Mechanism to Deal with Foreign Terrorist Fighters
Despite the many events and developments on the world stage in recent months, the question of determining the fate of…
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Iran
Trump’s Potential Options for Iran
While Iran’s mullahs react with satisfaction to the failure of the second recent summit held in Hanoi between US President…
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United States
Why the Hanoi Summit Failed?
The results of the second recent summit between US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un…
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UAE
The Value Added to the UAE-South Korea Special Partnership
Relations between the UAE and Asian economic forces have been the scene of continuous qualitative developments for years. These have…
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Grand Imam of al-Azhar: The Imam of Tolerance
Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed el-Tayeb, the head of the Muslim Council of Elders, has resolved an issue that sparked…
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UAE
The UAE’s Year of Tolerance
Throughout the history of the UAE, even before its establishment by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and…
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Iran
Has the US Changed Its Middle East Strategy?
From the American University in Cairo (AUC), US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an important speech in which he…
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Yemen
The Houthis’ Most Serious Crime
The Stockholm agreement, signed last month under UN auspices between the legitimate government of Yemen and the Iranian-backed Houthi militia,…
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The UK after the Brexit
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson revealed that his country would open two new…
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Israel
Did Trump Back Down from Pulling Out from Syria?
Sometime after President Trump announced US troops would withdraw from Syria, several leaks and statements suggested he might rethink his…
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