Category: Panorama

            Since December 2018 Sudan was boiling. That is unfortunately nothing special for the decades since independence in 1965 have often been volatile in this “The last dance with Bašīr”

            The views of Huntington that the world is ahead of a major confrontation of cultures were sensational and indeed very catchy when his book “Hearths Closer”

            If the tragedy and the gradual disintegration in the Arab world discussed last week can be demonstrated in a “Where to, Baghdad?”

            On 31 March the annual Arab League summit kicked off after a one day meeting of the League’s Economic and Social Committee. Which in “The Tunis Summit”

            Both Western outlets concentrating on the Middle East, both Arabic media was overtaken by President Trump’s decision to recognize the Golan Heights under Israeli “Heights and Summits”

            For quite some time now we hear about protests in many different parts of the third world, from Venezuela to Algeria. Strangely, mostly about “The Precious”

            International headlines are taken on by Venezuela, and French protests recently. Even on Middle East level, news now focus on Algeria – just like “Those Damascene Roads”

            By mid January there were already some 40 registered candidates for this year’s Algerian presidential election. Most of them are independents, or at least “Changing Algeria”

            Much of Middle Eastern politics, especially between Arab states themselves, can often seem as pity bickering or some foolish game between children. Like this “Game of Arab Thrones”