Category: Panorama

            Syria, which was one of the last countries to be hit by the so called “Arab Spring” back in 2011 for years ruled the “America, Syria and the big map”

            While most of the Middle Eastern attention now turns to the Persian Gulf amidst possible confrontation between Iran and the US with its Gulf “Oil and Water, Iran and Egypt”

            As we were busy the last two weeks to give insight to the UAE we also wished to wait for the details of the “The deal of the century”

            Last week we looked into the Emirates and how the escape of Princess Hayā may seem to be a simple family scandal, but there “The Emirates and the big puzzle II”

            This week the Gulf managed to gain the attention of the headlines in a way more suitable to their projected image of being an “The Emirates and the big puzzle”

             As the general Arabic debate concentrates now on the “deal of the century” more and more people guesses what steps each state will take. “Between fire and the abyss”

            In an interview in December 1981 former Libyan leader Mu‘ammar al-Qaddāfī said: “we are absolutely against tourism [terrorism] and these tourist [terrorist] groups in “Tourists, terrorists, Tunisia?”

            Last week we saw that whatever happened in Fuğayra it certainly scared and infuriated Riyadh. And if the message was by the al-Ḥūtīs, they “It is time to raise that white flag”

            On 12 May an incident happened in the port of Fuğayra, which is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Emirati “What really happened in Fuğayra?”

            For more than a year now, ever since Trump stepped out of the JCPOA there were serious questions what would follow. Does that mean “The B-Team”