Dalia Ziada On February 12th, the Turkish national TV station, TRT1, broadcast a mostly-red map projecting Turkey’s expanding geopolitical influence, by 2050, over southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Caucasia, and parts of Russia. This map was originally created, in 2009, by George Freidman, the founder of Stratfor, …
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Dalia Ziada It was clear from the early statements of Biden electoral campaign that his administration will not be as friendly to Arab Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE), as Trump Administration was. Most countries in the Middle East, excluding Iran, hoped for the re-election of Trump. …
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Dalia Ziada This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring. A whole decade has passed on the cluster of revolutions that rewrote the reality of the entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Yet, it was not a happy decade for most of the countries that went …
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