The most prominent event that overshadowed the 32nd Arab Summit, hosted by the Saudi city of Jeddah, was the presence of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad after his country’s membership in the Arab League having been frozen for a period of 12 years. Syria’s membership in the Arab League was suspended during the Arab Spring, which witnessed the Syrian regime’s suppression ...
By Mehmet Kıvanç The Arab world searching its ways The “spring” is over. While the world is more occupied with topics like economic crisis and migrant flows, the Arab world has also started the quest for formulas to solve its own crises. With Biden declaring, “America is back” and reorienting the US towards China and Russia, it is possible to ...
“There is no war without Egypt and no peace without Syria.” This phrase, repeated by many Arab diplomats, experts and officials during the past decades, is more than just verbal rhetoric. It reflects the complex nature of the relationship between the two countries. In other words, one country cannot do without the other. One hand holds the key to war ...
by Mehmet Kıvanç The election will take place as the Syrian civil war enters the eleventh year of conflict on May 26th. Both in Syria and International power balances are totally different from the 2014 elections. Sarkis Kassarian who has been a war reporter in Damascus and in many other conflict areas sees the possibility of the Arab world recognizing ...
Relations between Iran and Arab countries have had ups and downs throughout history. Since Muslims conquered the Iranian empire and turned the Iranians to Islam, the Iranians have excerted their influence on the Caliphate system. As a result, Muslim countries have witnessed constant quarrels between the Persians, Turks and Arabs in the sphere of geopolitical influence. https://uwidata.com/7178-revisionism-and-neo-ottomanism-in-the-eastern-mediterranean/ The debate was ...
The Secretary General of the of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, has once again charged Turkey and Iran with expansionism allegedly aimed at spreading their influence to the Arab countries of the Middle East. As he spoke in Cairo at the opening of an Arab Parliament seminar on “building a unified strategy to deal with neighbors”, Aboul ...