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  • Qatar’s Next Gambit After World Cup? Convincing Expats to Stay

    Qatar has set out to create a more permanent worker population with sweeping labor reforms introduced this week as it winds down a building frenzy for the 2022 soccer World Cup. Achieving that goal would mark a fundamental shift in the economics of the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas. Foreign workers account for 95% of Qatar’s workforce and about 90% of its population.

  • Engaging the Houthis in Yemen: A Repeat of China’s Afghanistan Mediation Strategy?

    This commentary provides an overview of China’s engagement with the Houthi movement over the past few years. It compares Beijing’s relationship with the Houthis to that of another armed non-state actor, the Taliban, with an eye towards identifying the trajectory this engagement might take. The commentary also considers how this relationship, in addition to the developments taking place in Sino-Saudi relations, are shaping Chinese mediation efforts in Yemen since 2015.

  • Opinion: What is/are the Truth/s Behind the Beirut Explosions?

    So how is it possible to bring some degree of clarity to the investigation process and findings? First of all, the need for an independent international investigation must be insisted on by the international community in its discussions with the caretaker government and the president. This can be tied to the incremental provision of direct assistance to NGOs for reconstruction of housing for the neighborhoods. The more cooperation means more funding…to the NGOs and communities.

  • After the UAE, Who Will and Won’t Be Next to Normalize With Israel?

    A number of Arab countries have been developing their views on a relationship with Israel to the point that additional normalization initiatives become readily imaginable.

  • Is This Time Different? The Gulf’s Early Economic Policy Response to the Crises of 2020

    These extraordinary and acute shocks to Gulf economies drove regional governments to implement wide-ranging policy responses. The resulting – and indeed ongoing – measures fall into five broad categories: expansive economic support packages, reassessing social safety nets and state benefits, budget cuts and spending reallocation, raising new revenue domestically, and tapping debt markets.

  • What is Joe Biden’s Israel policy?

    President Trump is already bringing Israel into his reelection campaign. On the trail Monday, he touted his administration’s controversial move to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital as a victory for U.S. evangelical Christians, for whom Israeli dominance over the Holy Land is a matter of divine providence.

  • Saudi Aramco: Time To Invest In One Of The World’s Largest Companies?

    Saudi Aramco had held the highest net income, dividends, and total shareholder returns among major oil companies since its IPO. The company had an aggregate of $37.5 billion in dividends across 1Q and 2Q - roughly 2%. It remains committed to its annual goal of $75 billion in dividends in the year or a roughly 4% yield.

  • Video: Fancy a date? This festival in Saudi Arabia has 700,000 tons

    Auctioneers shout to get the attention of the highest bidders for Saudi Arabia's prized dates at Unaizah festival, where buyers from across the kingdom line up for the produce that is later exported worldwide.

  • Commentary: What are Kamala Harris’s views on the Middle East?

    Ms Harris acknowledges the long-standing partnership between the US and Saudi Arabia, and its ongoing importance, but she has called for more pressure to promote "US values" in the Gulf. Like Mr Biden, her positions suggest a likely continuation of the strong US affiliation with Gulf Arab countries, although with a broader agenda than Mr Trump's exclusive concern with military and commercial relations.

  • Can Lebanon Rise from the Rubble?

    The destruction of the port of Beirut – and Lebanon's freefalling economy – has fueled calls to end the country's sectarian political system, which allocates power among Christians, Shia, and Sunni Muslims according to a rigid formula. But might such a change merely deepen suspicion among an already deeply divided population?