Category Archives: Arabia—New Global Diplomacy hub in action

Oman—Iran, new ferry line

Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran and Sutan Qaboos, ruler of Oman in 1968.  jointly proposed [...]

Hargeisa—a new player in the Middle East

The Embassy of Somaliland in Jerusalem is the likely harbinger of a different military-political order [...]

After Hormuz, and Bab el-Mandeb before two naval blockades

While the Iranians and the Americans measure their strength by blocking navigation in the direction [...]

American-Iranian "magnet" in Muscat

Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East and peacekeeping missions, [...]

Israel—a new actor in the Horn of Africa

The crowd on the shores of the Red Sea is getting more complicated Who said [...]

Strait of Hormuz: Russian business eyes North Al Batinah

In the arena of the Strait of Hormuz, where the US and China, the world’s [...]

Strait of Hormuz: Tourism or "Combat Operations"?

There is no shortage of parallel realities this fall in the Persian Gulf, especially near [...]

Mohammed bin Salman in Washington without a piano?

That music of Riyadh is sophisticated, and it stays in the ears of many. Just [...]

Qatar: what now?

After all, Qatar is the world’s key exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), one of [...]

Oman between the military offers of America and China

Oil exporters from the Persian Gulf have been hostage to the developments  around the Strait [...]