By Islam Farag, from Cairo / Egypt As is its custom, the Middle East remains a volatile landscape, a region in perpetual flux where alliances and strategic calculations shift faster than its actors can anticipate. Over the past few years, coalitions formed for and against the Arab Spring; then, as interests and objectives evolved, new alignments emerged—uniting former foes and ...
By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department The Middle East, in the third decade of the twenty-first century, is witnessing one of the most significant power realignments in its contemporary history. For years, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as the two main pillars of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council, ...