Category: Panorama

            The inner dealing of the Iraqi politics, though they are very delicate matters and no Iraqi government is in an enviable situation, became severely “And Iraq said: No!”

            Sunni and Shia, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies versus Iran, regional Arab-Persian conflicts… These and so many similar cliches fill the news broadcasts “The Great Divide”

            Last week we already foreshadowed that there are big changes on horizon for Syria. And then came the last, “Who is outsmarting whom?”

            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?”