Mohammed bin Salman doesn’t care what the West thinks of him
Saudi Arabia is a bit like us. It’s decent at football. It holds conferences to talk about things like ‘investing in humanity’.…
Meet Israel’s 21-year-old TikTok firebrand
Hadar Muchtar is angry because Benjamin Netanyahu has won a sixth term as prime minister of Israel and she hasn’t…
Africa's zone of anarchy is getting worse
In the most violent region in the world, the West is realising that it messed up. Protestors in Burkina Faso…
Will Chad become Africa’s next warzone?
If you went to Doha this summer, you may have seen some militiamen from Chad. Perhaps at breakfast. For the…
Why Saudi Arabia is trying to take over the world of golf
Golf came to Saudi Arabia in the 1930s. American expats, working in the nascent oil industry, brought their clubs with…
Could Iran come between Israel and its new Gulf ally?
When Israel and the United Arab Emirates first started speaking in 1994, the meetings were kept secret. The Emiratis, like…
In Israel, there’s never an easy fix
From an Israeli army base on the border with Lebanon, I can see the village of Maroun al-Ras. An Iranian…
The strange tale of NEOM: Saudi Arabia’s struggling desert megacity
Prince Mohammed bin Salman is desperate to shake Saudi Arabia’s addiction to oil. Its price has still not recovered from…
