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22 pieces filed under diplomacy
GCC Leaders Set Agenda for 2024: Focus on Security, Economy and Diplomacy
At the GCC summit in Riyadh, leaders from across the Gulf Cooperation Council meet to discuss regional security, economic development, and diplomatic relations with key partners.
By Rasha Karim
PoliticsJul 17
Regional Powers Navigate Shifting Alliances Amid Gulf Tensions
The shifting geopolitical landscape in the Middle East continues to challenge regional stability, with countries navigating complex diplomatic relationships.
By Rasha Karim
PoliticsJun 29
The Consulate Is the Region's Most Practical Institution
For millions of workers, the plain consular window, not the grand embassy, is where the state actually touches their lives
By Sara Qureshi
WorldJun 28
The Cricket-and-Commerce Diplomacy of South Asia and the Gulf
A shared obsession with one sport quietly underwrites trade, tourism, and goodwill across the corridor between South Asia and the Gulf
By Lena Holloway
OpinionJun 12
Do Not Mistake Relief for Resolution
The Gulf is allowed to breathe today. It should also remember that a calmer headline is not the same as a safer region.
By Diego Arroyo
WorldJun 12
Geneva Is Not the Gulf, But It May Decide the Weekend
A possible signing ceremony, Pakistan's mediator role and the G7 calendar have turned European diplomacy into the Gulf's weather forecast.
By Priya Chen
PoliticsJun 12
Why the Draft Deal Is Still a Draft
Reported terms point to oil sanctions, Hormuz, blocked funds and Lebanon. The harder part is turning a list into something every actor can live with.
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 12
The Weekend the Water Might Open
A possible US-Iran understanding has given the Gulf its first real breath in weeks. The problem is that the paperwork is still not the peace.
By Sara Qureshi
WorldJun 8
The Airport Lounge Is a Diplomatic Weather Station
In a region built on movement, the lounge often reveals the temperature of relationships before the official calendar does.
By Mira Faraj
PoliticsJun 4
The Regional Press Conference Has Become a Building, Not an Event
Why the staging, the seating chart, and the side rooms now do more diplomatic work than the answers from the podium.
By Mira Faraj
BusinessJun 4
The Second Cousin in the Family Business Is the Most Underrated Asset in the Region
Why the regional family conglomerate's quietest performer is the relative who never asked for a board seat and now runs a quarter of the cash flow.
By Sara Qureshi
PoliticsJun 4
The Municipal Council Is Where the Region's Actual Politics Lives
Everyone watches the cabinet. The interesting fights, the real careers, and the durable policy shifts are happening one floor below.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsJun 3
Saudi Arabia Is Buying the Future, One Consultancy Report at a Time
If the future arrived in a slide deck, the Kingdom would already be living in it. The actual schedule is more flexible.
By Mira Faraj
PoliticsJun 3
The Annual Budget Speech Has Quietly Become Performance Art
Why a document that used to be read for numbers is now consumed, in this region, mostly for the staging.
By Mira Faraj
PoliticsJun 3
The Quiet Power of the Third Cousin
Why every Gulf cabinet has a man at the back of the room whose business card does not match the importance of his phone calls.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsJun 3
The Cabinet Reshuffle Is, Mostly, a Language Event
Why the most consequential thing about the latest reshuffle was not who got what portfolio, but what the new portfolio was called.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsJun 3
Anti-Corruption Units Are Hiring. The Listings Are More Telling Than the Mandates.
What you can read off a job description, when you read it properly.
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyJun 3
An Arabic-First Language Model Just Quietly Stopped Being Worse
Inside the recent improvements in the local language-model ecosystem, and why the gap to the global frontier closed faster than nearly anyone predicted.
By Priya Chen
PoliticsJun 3
Every Country Now Has a Ministry of the Future. The Future Is Underwhelmed.
Inside the global rush to bureaucratise the long term, and the suspicion that the long term has noticed.
By Lena Holloway
OpinionJun 3
Stop Calling It a Vision
Why the word has lost the meaning the strategy decks need it to carry, and what to use instead.
By Diego Arroyo
WorldJun 3
The Embassy Iftar Is the Most Underestimated Instrument of Regional Foreign Policy
Why a single carefully assembled guest list, served on a single carefully assembled plate, can do more strategic work in three hours than a year of communiques.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsSep 29
Talking Instead of Fighting: The Gulf's De-Escalation Turn
After years of rivalry and proxy conflict, a pragmatic logic of mending fences has taken hold across the region's diplomacy.
By Lena Holloway