FIFA to rescue troubled Saudi King Salman
Palestine is a headache Saudi King Salman doesn’t need as he confronts…
Saudi Arabia’s reach in Yemen: Fighting for regional dominance
The war by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies against Houthi rebels…
Middle Eastern conflicts spill onto Spanish football pitch
Inevitably, the mass exodus of refugees from conflict areas was going to…
Religious support for Qatari labour reforms puts Gulf states on the spot
A panel in Doha of religious scholars, officials of Qatar's government-sponsored…
Militant football fans are on a roll across Eurasia
Militant football fans are on a roll in the Middle East, Europe…
Egypt throws the dice with partial lifting of stadia ban
The Egyptian interior ministry, in a potential signal that the country's…
Israel’s fault lines spill onto the football pitch
Israel's multiple fault lines - secular vs religious, Jewish vs Palestine, and…
The Middle East: Who says the popular quest for change has been quelled?
A series of recent mass protests in several Arab countries have called…
Turkish football supports Erdogan’s war against the Kurds
The Turkish Football Federation (TFF), in a demonstration of the inseparable ties…
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Volatile political geography of oil and minorities
The fact that dissatisfied minorities populate the oil-rich regions of Iran and…