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Trump Visits Arab Kings: Making Deals, Accepting Bribes, Shifting Policy

Dan La Botz — 2025-05-19T08:47:28Z

President Donald Trump visited three of the Persian Gulf monarchies last week, receiving adulation, praising the feudal regimes, making deals, and accepting bribes while also carrying out a significant shift in U.S. Middle East policy. Amidst beautiful palaces and mosques, surrounded by Arabian horses, and watching sword dances, Trump and the monarchs heaped praise on each other.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Two Myths About the Gaza Ceasefire

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-01-23T19:05:09Z

There are two conspicuous myths about the Gaza ceasefire that went into effect last Sunday: that it was due to Trump's pressure on Netanyahu and that it was a victory achieved by Hamas.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Palestine, United States (USA), United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Exacerbating the Contradictions

Joseph Daher — 2022-07-14T11:00:21Z

“But more than this, it is necessary to build social movements and encourage self-organization from below. The struggles accumulated by the Resistance Committees and the revolutionary movement in Sudan are one of the best regional experiences of organization from below, and can serve as valuable models.”

- IV570 - July 2022 / United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Russia, Ukraine, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Strengthening of normalization process of Israel after agreement with the UAE

Joseph Daher — 2020-09-25T08:22:44Z

On 13 August the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel entered into a US-sponsored peace accord that further deepens the process of normalization of the colonial and racist apartheid state.

- IV548 - September 2020 / Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Trumpism goes global

Nick Dearden — 2019-07-13T11:12:26Z

“I've travelled 24 hours, from Manila to Rio, to be here, yet politically I feel I haven't left home.” Walden Bello, leading light of the â€˜anti-globalisation movement' and former Filipino congressman reflected on the rise of authoritarian right-wing â€˜strong men' from the Philippines to Brazil. I joined him in Brazil to assess what has changed in the 20 years since mass protests in Seattle brought the World Trade Organisation to a standstill, and announced the birth of a new, international movement to the world. “But 20 years ago, Seattle was an exclusively left-wing affair” Bello continued. “We need to understand how the far right managed to eat our lunch.”

- IV534 - July 2019 / Brazil, Britain, Philippines, India, Far Right, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Money, Markets, and Monarchies

Adam Hanieh — 2019-02-02T18:39:39Z

Adam Hanieh talks about his new book to Jadaliyya.

- Reviews section / Saudi Arabia, Reviews, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Campaign Against Qatar is Latest in Series of Attacks by the Region's Old Establishment

Gilbert Achcar — 2017-06-19T10:58:40Z

This article by Gilbert Achcar was translated, presented and and published by The Arabist on 16 June 2017.

- IV509 - June 2017 / Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE)