Qatar Is Powering Syria
For Syria, Qatar’s money is power. On July 31, the Qatar Fund for Development announced plans to fund a surge of natural gas deliveries to Syria. Deliveries began on August 2. The gas, which is flowing...
World Bank
G-7: Africans Deserve Real Electricity
The G-7 countries are meeting this week in Kananaskis in Alberta, Canada. This G-7 meeting will focus on geopolitical issues. While many disagreements currently prevail among the G-7 countries,...
Op-eds
Turkey and Qatar Are Buying Into Syria. The US Should Be Wary of Their Motives
With Washington’s blessing, Qatar and Turkey are cementing their role in post-Assad Syria. On May 29, Syria signed a $7 billion memorandum of understanding with the United States, Qatar, and Turkey to...
Policy Briefs
Inside the secret genius of the Ukraine mineral deal
President Trump has just struck one big, beautiful deal with Ukraine — and its impact could reach far beyond rare earth minerals. Unveiled yesterday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent,...
Op-eds
Canada should push the G7 to help end energy poverty
Ending fossil fuel funding doesn’t reduce emissions but does hurt the world’s poorest people
Op-eds
Who Destroyed Lebanon: Hezbollah or the Banks?
A “bloc” of lawmakers, political parties, media outlets, and non-governmental organizations are peddling a platform that distracts attention from the paramount importance of disarming Hezbollah and...
Op-eds
The clean energy revolution that didn’t happen
Cast your mind back to September 6, 2019, when presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in New Hampshire, took the hand of a 24-year-old activist. “Kiddo,” he said, “look in my eyes. I...
Op-eds
The Hidden Renewable Energy in Central Asia
One of the biggest threats to human health, and a major source of air pollution, is regularly hidden in statistical reports as “renewable energy:” the burning of dung, wood, and lump coal. While most...
Op-eds
Turning the Page on Intolerance: Egypt’s Textbook Reforms
Egypt has made significant strides in purging school textbooks of antisemitic content and other problematic material, revising over 350 state-issued books since 2018 as a part of an ambitious reform program....
Op-eds
Egypt Revises School Textbooks to Expunge Antisemitic Content
Egypt has made significant strides in purging school textbooks of antisemitic and anti-Christian content, with approximately 80 percent of Egyptian students in elementary and preparatory education now...
Policy Briefs
Gulf countries talk like Iran, act like Israel
The GCC rhetoric on Israel masks its true aims to decouple Syria's Assad and the Islamic Republic and declaw Hezbollah in Lebanon
Op-eds
Return Funding for Reliable Energy to the World’s Poorest
A centerpiece of President Biden’s agenda was a government led effort to greatly reduce production and consumption of fossil fuels. One of the key policies Biden enacted to pursue this goal was ending...
Op-eds
‘You are Going to See the Sanctions Go Back On’: Trump Expected to Restore Maximum Pressure Against Iran
Maximum Pressure to Make a Comeback: President-elect Donald Trump plans to increase sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of a return to his previous administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign, former Trump administration officials told The Wall Street Journal.
Flash Briefs
Iran’s military budget is growing: What does that mean for the Middle East?
Iran wants to increase the accuracy of its range and the overall number of its ballistic missiles.
Op-eds
MBS Bets on Egypt’s Fragile Economy
For the first time since 2022, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) visited Cairo last week to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Their meeting, coupled with Saudi Arabia’s recently...
Policy Briefs
Guterres embraces the authoritarians
By attending a three-day summit in Russia and lending credence to Putin’s despotism, the U.N. secretary-general is effectively spitting in the faces of both Ukraine and Israel.
Op-eds
Israel Announces Legal Action Against French President Macron Over Exclusion From Arms Fair
Israel plans to take legal action against French President Emmanuel Macron for his decision to ban Israeli companies from a Paris arms fair, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz...
Flash Briefs
Presidents of Iran and Russia Tout Growing Ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian touted growing ties between the two countries on October 11 as they met in person for the first time in person...
Flash Briefs
Time to Cut the Cord in Lebanon
Don’t pop the champagne corks yet. While there is certainly reason to cheer for the termination of the bloody terrorist leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel’s military strikes in and around Beirut...
Op-eds
Pro-Hamas Islamists Win the Most Seats in Jordanian Elections
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Action Front (IAF) secured 31 of 138 seats in Jordanian parliamentary elections on September 10, the most of any party. The IAF achieved its best result in 35 years by...