Humain Selects Goldman Sachs to Advise Saudi AI Push
The PIF-backed company has selected Goldman Sachs to advise on financing for major data-center projects, as Riyadh tries to turn cheap energy and U.S. chip partnerships... Read more.
Israel Risks Confusing Economic Endurance with Success
A country that once sold itself as a start-up nation increasingly behaves like a fortress economy with a venture-capital wing.... Read more.
Why Oman Does Not See Iran the Way Other Gulf Nations Do
For Muscat, relations with Tehran are not an ideological deviation from the Gulf consensus, but the product of a regional history in which each Gulf monarchy has... Read more.
U.S. and Iran Close to Deal: Trump in Damage Control Mode
President Donald Trump said the United States is “getting a lot closer” to an agreement with Iran. Here are the causes of why Trump did not want to return to... Read more.
Long Read: How Hamas Built Professional Intelligence Over Decades?
The October 7 attacks revealed the degree to which violent non-state actors could be capable of collecting, processing, and operationalizing intelligence in a professional... Read more.
Ben-Gvir’s Flotilla Spectacle Exposes Israel’s Detention Violations
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has triggered a new international backlash after publishing footage that showed detained Global Sumud Flotilla... Read more.
Long Read: Why Egypt’s Market Economy Failed to Achieve Development?
In Cleft Capitalism, Egyptian economist Amr Adly argues that a few large firms gained access to finance, land and state resources, while the overwhelming majority... Read more.
Long Read: How Qatar Turned into a Natural Gas Superpower?
Qatar's rise as an energy superpower was by no means inevitable, but a story of gradual accumulation of bargaining power, first over production, then over financing... Read more.
Long Read: How to Understand “Iran’s Grand Strategy”?
In Iran’s Grand Strategy, Vali Nasr presents Iran as a state shaped by historical insecurity, the memory of foreign intervention, and its rivalry with the United... Read more.
Trump-Xi Summit Signals America’s Middle East Monopoly Is Declining
Trump’s visit confirmed that the Middle East is no longer an arena where Washington can act alone and then ask others to absorb the consequences.... Read more.