News by Al Arabiya

Syria will be the first task for Antonio Guterres (Raghida Dergham)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/10/09/Syria-will-be-the-first-task-for-Antonio-Guterres.html

Iranian trusteeship with Israel’s blessings (Eyad Abu Shakra)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/10/10/Iranian-Trusteeship-with-Israel-s-Blessings.html

Why Hillary Clinton is exactly what the Middle East needs (Azeem Ibrahim)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/10/10/Why-Hillary-Clinton-is-exactly-what-the-Middle-East-needs.html

Trump goes to the gutter in debate: It won’t save him (Joyce Karam)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/10/10/Trump-goes-to-the-gutter-in-debate-It-won-t-save-him.html

Why the UK shouldn’t harbor troublemakers (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/09/06/Why-the-UK-shouldn-t-harbor-troublemakers.html

Malaysia has been betrayed by Prime Minister Najib Razak (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

I have argued time and again that the greatest threat to the Muslim world is not the West, but rather, corruption and incompetence in administration in the Muslim countries themselves.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/07/22/Malaysia-has-been-betrayed-by-Prime-Minister-Najib-Razak.html

Malaysia has been betrayed by Prime Minister Najib Razak (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

I have argued time and again that the greatest threat to the Muslim world is not the West, but rather, corruption and incompetence in administration in the Muslim countries themselves.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/07/22/Malaysia-has-been-betrayed-by-Prime-Minister-Najib-Razak.html

Why referendums are bad for democracy (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/07/06/Why-referenda-are-bad-for-democracy.html

Will Libya survive as a state? (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/06/29/Will-Libya-survive-as-a-state-.html

Will Hillary Clinton re-establish the US position in the Middle East? (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/06/22/Will-Hilary-Clinton-re-establish-the-US-position-in-the-Middle-East-.html

Christmas will come early for Putin if Britain votes to leave EU (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/world/2016/06/19/Christmas-will-come-early-for-Putin-if-Britain-votes-to-leave-EU.html

Will the next US president witness a third Gulf war? (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

Even as ISIS is being pushed back, the Middle East is not getting any closer to being stabilized. If anything the situation is looking more precarious than ever, as the political process in “democratic” Iraq is breaking down, and some have started to point out that the country cannot be put back together as a unitary state, but that at the very least it will need to be partitioned

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/05/25/Will-the-next-US-President-witness-a-third-Gulf-war-.html

The convenient scapegoat of the Sykes-Picot Agreement (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

One of the favorite tropes in the Middle East about why the region is so politically unstable is to blame the Sykes-Picot Agreement signed exactly 100 years ago, in which Britain and France settled on how they would partition the territory of the Ottoman after their eventual in WW1

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/05/22/The-convenient-scapegoat-of-the-Sykes-Picot-Agreement.html

What happens when Aleppo falls? (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

The most remarkable thing about the current ‘ceasefire’ in Syria, as it is teetering on the edge of collapse is the fact that the city of Aleppo was only included in the ceasefire agreement in the last minute. The Russians have not stopped bombing it for one day in the two months of ‘ceasefire’. Why is that?

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/05/06/What-happens-when-Aleppo-falls-.html

Why the Syria ceasefire will not hold (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

The last couple of months have seen a significant amount of reduction of fighting in Syria, on the back of the Russian-sponsored “ceasefire”. And with it, a significant decrease in the influx of Syrian migrants into Europe. But the “ceasefire” has not meant a complete cessation of hostilities, as per the usual definition. And this week, despite US Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts and intense shuttle diplomacy, the peace deal is teetering on the verge of collapse.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/05/04/Why-the-Syria-ceasefire-will-not-hold.html

What is Putin’s next ambitious gambit in the Middle East? (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

Russia’s President Putin has stomped his authority on the Syrian war. It was not pretty, and it was not clean. But it seems to have gotten him everything he could have wanted out of the conflict.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/04/24/What-is-Putin-s-next-ambitious-gambit-in-the-Middle-East-.html

Why are Muslim countries poor? (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

One of the favorite tropes of radical Islamists is that Muslims all over the world are being oppressed and held back by Western Crusaders and Zionists. The reason why more than 1 billion Muslims live in poverty and deprivation cannot be anything but the fault of evil forces who wish to undermine Islam.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/04/19/Why-are-Muslim-countries-poor-.html

The irrepressible myth of the Islamic Caliphate (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

Today, we suffer of entirely too many generalizations about Muslims. There are many reasons why this is the case, and our position in the global conversation since 9/11 has no doubt contributed to it. But I believe there is much more to it.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/04/16/The-irrepressible-myth-of-the-Islamic-Caliphate.html

History will judge Obama’s foreign policy legacy as one of failure (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

As President Obama is about to leave the White House at the end of the year, the legacy he leaves behind will be mixed. He has averted a second Great Depression, has saved the car industry in the United States, and gave Americans what seven other presidents have tried and failed to deliver: comprehensive healthcare. And despite battling a hostile and deliberately obstructionist Congress year after year since 2010, he has managed to move things forward in a progressive direction in most areas of life.

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What do ISIS want? Donald Trump (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

The political and military machine of ISIS in the Levant is creaking at the seams. In the wake of the Russian intervention in Syria, and continued actions by the United States and their NATO allies in Iraq and the eastern areas of Syria, the group has lost somewhere between 20- to 25 percent of its territory, it is losing fighters, their recruitment efforts are faltering, and, as I have argued before, they seem to be making preparations to abandon the Levant altogether and move on to Libya and/or Afghanistan.

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Azeem Ibrahim is an RAI Fellow at Mansfield College, University of Oxford and Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. He completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge and served as an International Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a World Fellow at Yale. Over the years he has met and advised numerous world leaders on policy development and was ranked as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the European Social Think Tank in 2010 and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He tweets @AzeemIbrahim

How do you solve a problem like Aung San Suu Kyi? (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

Just as Aung San Suu Kyi gets ready to take over the reins of power in Myanmar after a long and dramatic three decades of fighting for democracy in her country, a new biography reveals she has made rather off-colour remarks about an interview in 2013. It would seem that Ms Suu Kyi does not like being interviewed by Muslims. Even if they work for the BBC who have consistently covered her political career in a positive light.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/03/28/How-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-.html

Glory days of nationalism never really existed (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Arabiya)

The “Trump Phenomenon” in the United States is often described as “populism” and an anti-establishment revolt. It is no such thing. It is merely the next step in the evolution of the Tea Party movement. It is thus, an excess of nationalism, above all else.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/03/25/Glory-days-of-nationalism-never-really-existed.html

The Muslim world is going backwards – and the West isn’t to blame (Azeem Ibrahim, Al Jazeera)

Turkey and Malaysia have long been regarded as the most developed countries in the Muslim world. Through a historic commitment in the C20th to modernisation and development, they have achieved standards of infrastructure, education, healthcare but also industrialization and economic output that compare favorably to that of many of the newer members of the European Union.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/03/11/The-Muslim-world-is-going-backwards-and-the-West-isn-t-to-blame.html