Jihadist football: Contrary visions of a future Syria
A football star-turned-protest leader-turned-jihadist encourages peaceful anti-Bashar Al-Assad protests in Syrian rebel-held…
Saudi Arabia’s Future: will Al-Saud-Wahhabi partnership hold?
Saudi Arabia is confronting a perfect storm of challenges: economic, political, social,…
Bahraini’s soccer defeat: A cautionary tale for autocrats
A failed election campaign for the presidency of world soccer body…
Conviction of Egyptian football fans slams door on potential political dialogue
Fleeting hopes that Egypt’s militant, street battled-hardened football fans may have breached…
Saudi Arabia’s Syria strategy: Rewriting the Middle East’s political map
Saudi Arabia has raised the ante in its battle with Iran by…
Iran’s litmus test: sports and air transport
Sports and air transport are likely to serve as indicators of whether…
Mired in problems, Egypt’s president reaches out to Ultras
Best known for his brutal repression of critics, Egyptian-general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi…
China and the Middle East: Tilting towards Iran?
President Xi Jinping went from Riyadh to Iran this month to become…
Pressure builds on Sheikh Salman to respond to human rights allegations
Pressure is building on Asian Football Confederation president and world soccer body…
The Middle East: China Venturing into the Maelstrom
Chinese President Xi Jingping has effectively acknowledged that, increasingly, China will be…