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Ankara’s handling of the Iran war has strengthened its foreign policy standing while helping deflect domestic criticism and portray political opposition as a liability in a volatile region. The risk is that Türkiye’s geopolitical leverage is used to consolidate political power rather than strengthen national capacity.
Özge Genç
Survival in the face of superior force is the Iranian state’s most consistent historical achievement. Could the current war be the outlier in a five-hundred-year-old pattern?
Mahjoob Zweiri
A new flood of displaced people in Lebanon faces shrinking access to shelter, protection, and the possibility of return. Their plight reflects not only Israeli policy but systemic failure at both the national and international levels.
Maysa Baroud
The Gulf’s next phase of economic transformation depends on shifting from external reliance to locally driven ideas, institutions, and solutions.
Yousuf Hamad Al Balushi
Missiles may dominate headlines, but the deeper challenge for Gulf states lies in the economic and strategic disruption the conflict is imposing on their model of regional stability.
Nayef Al-Nabet
Transparency International’s annual rankings show public perceptions on corruption in the Middle East and North Africa have not changed over the past five years. Yet a closer look reveals that anticorruption agencies and legal reform are quietly making headway in combating institutional corruption.