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Most of the AI infrastructure the Gulf has built to date is not an engine of independence but an architecture of dependence: sophisticated, expensive, and pointed in the wrong direction.
Muhanad Seloom
As the U.S.-Iran war flares again, commercial transit at the world’s most strategic maritime chokepoint is obstructed once more. Have alternative routes proven successful enough to offset the disruption?
Frédéric Schneider
The wars since October 7 have reshaped battlefronts and shifted power across the Middle East. Iran and Israel have confronted each other directly, bearing military, political, and economic costs, while Saudi Arabia and Türkiye have avoided this cycle of attrition and made relative gains.
Khaled Dahem Al-Hajri
Understandings between Washington and Tehran, in the form currently on the table, are unlikely to resolve the underlying tensions or bring stability to the region.
Ibrahim Al-Sheikh
A landmark civilian nuclear cooperation deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia represents one of the most significant strategic shifts in the Middle East in years, with implications well beyond the construction of reactors or the transfer of advanced technologies. The agreement could reshape the rules of the nuclear game across the entire region.
Khalid Al-Jaber
Gulf states must pivot more to Southeast Asia to increase their oil exports, as ASEAN’s rising demand for an oil-driven energy transition, its limited appetite for Iranian crude, and longstanding energy ties with the GCC create prime opportunities for Gulf producers.