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March 13, 2019

‘The Deal of the Century’: Peace Plan or sinking the last lingering hopes for peace?

I came across the following startling tweet on 2 March 2019.
February 15, 2019

A Papal outreach in Arabia?

A caffeine-rich flat white coffee, a Catholic priest, the Pope and Abu Dhabi.
December 29, 2018

Let us celebrate the faith of Middle Eastern Christians

Those of you who know something about me also realise that I worked with the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) in Lebanon and Cyprus for a few years.
March 21, 2018

Middle East Matters... why?

Every time I visit Premier Christian Radio, it is almost like entering a different world. Or is it?
February 28, 2018

The MENA and Gulf regions: any rays of light?

With the vernal equinox almost upon us, and the days getting longer, brighter and therefore more hopeful, in spite of a period of storms, can the same be said about the MENA (Middle East and North
August 11, 2017

Al-Jazeera: how dark are the clouds?

My maternal grandfather was a news junkie. From the moment he would wake up in the morning, his ‘transistor’ radio never left his side.
July 11, 2017

Will common sense prevail in the Gulf Cooperation Council?

Talk about political maladroitness and a reluctance to read the signs. Indeed, the #GCCCrisis should never have been tackled in this dramatic way in the first place.
June 30, 2017

Analysing the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) crisis

It is now four weeks since this latest crisis between Qatar on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt on the other, erupted on 5 June 2017.
June 11, 2017

1967-2017: 50 years of a remorseless Occupation

"All people are born free, and all people squirm for freedom", says Shireen in Ben Ehrenreich’s The Way to the Spring, about which more later.
May 2, 2016

Syria: is this the end of hope?

Five long years of protests, violence, suffering, bloodletting, proxy wars, fresh hopes marooned on jagged deceptions, untold misery, the barbarity of pseudo-religious claims, and the cheap venom o