Author: Daniel Sógor

                      The last time Secretary-General of the Arab League Aḥmad Abū al-Ġayṭ visited Algiers on 29 “The end of an era”

                     This week, on 17 April Syria celebrated its 74th ‘Īd al-Ğalā’, or ‘evacuation day’, the day when the French troops “Hard fought independence”

            Once the Romans called Yemen Arabia Felix. Depending on the interpretation that could either mean Fertile Arabia, or Happy Arabia, thought the latter became “Arabia Felix”

            It is the second week we wished to leave Syria behind a little to deal with other parts of the Middle East. For long “And the table turns again”

            The last few, and especially the now passing weeks brought Syrian once again into the limelight. Of course only for those, who are not “The Magnificent One Lira”

            Though it did not bring much media attention around the world, the Sultan of Oman who lead his country for almost five decades, Sultan “A race for Oman”

            On 12 January 2020, amidst the biggest crisis in the Gulf since the American invasion of Iraq, Tamīm ibn Ḥamad Qatari emir visited Iran, “Mediation… for whom?”

          More than one week past since the US assassinated General Qāsem Soleymānī. Though all-our war has so far has been avoided, as it likelihood is “Repercussions”

            On the 10 of December the 40th Gulf Summit started, along with the annual meeting of the GCC’s foreign ministers. The summit accepted its “Altering Currents”