Iran or ISIS: Trump must choose

Read this article in Russian. If you were betting on an unpredictable Donald J. Trump to transform America’s bankrupt Mideast Continue reading →

There will be no partition of Syria

This article was first published on RT’s Op-Edge on December 29, 2016 and has been translated into French, Portuguese and Continue reading →

WikiLeaks: The two faces of Hillary Clinton on Syria

“People don’t trust Hillary Clinton, and no one can agree on why,” begins a sympathetic piece on the Democratic Party Continue reading →

Murder in Jordan: Who pulled the trigger on Nahed Hattar?

On September 25, prominent Jordanian journalist and thinker Nahed Hattar was shot dead at close range by an extremist as Continue reading →

From religion to politics, a steady isolation of Saudi Arabia

Read this article translated into Indonesian and French. In the waning days of August, 200 or so Sunni clerics and scholars from Egypt, Continue reading →

US presidential elections: A view from the Middle East

Although the era of US global hegemony is coming to a close, the Middle East – more than most regions Continue reading →

How narratives killed the Syrian people

Read this article in Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Italian and Albanian. On March 23, 2011, at the very start of what we now call Continue reading →

Interview: Mideast alliances shift as regional balance alters

In January, I was interviewed by the conservative Iranian publication Javan about the shifting balance of power in the Levant and Persian Gulf. Continue reading →