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Tarek Gara

The USSR-PLO Relations: A Story of Passive Delegation and Fluctuating Interests

Since after the Soviet Union emerged victorious in the Second World War, its supranational influence grew bigger in the region, and it…

Apr 9, 2023

The USSR-PLO Relations: A Story of Passive Delegation and Fluctuating Interests

Apr 9, 2023

Tarek Gara

Tiptoeing in the Sand: The Russian-American Race to Saudi Oil

Understanding the economic and geopolitical landscape between the US, Russia, and Saudi Arabia

Jan 22, 2023

Tiptoeing in the Sand: The Russian-American Race to Saudi Oil

Jan 22, 2023

Tarek Gara

Changing Governments ≠ Changing Agendas

When it comes to foreign policy, Trump and Biden are two sides of the same coin.

Nov 4, 2020

Changing Governments ≠ Changing Agendas

Nov 4, 2020

Tarek Gara

The Middle East Needs Liberation from the Inside

Foreign interventions and internal conflicts have created a hellhole. Time to fix it.

Sep 9, 2020

The Middle East Needs Liberation from the Inside

Sep 9, 2020

Tarek Gara

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Aug 24, 2020

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Aug 24, 2020

Tarek Gara

To Catch a Dictator

To identify a dictatorship, take a look at Egypt.

Aug 23, 2020

Egyptian President al-Sisi on the right looking up at the ceiling, and Donald Trump, the US president, gesturing on the right

Aug 23, 2020

Tarek Gara

Biden’s New Approach to Turkey: Topple Erdoğan

Why is the U.S. obsessed with interventionism?

Aug 16, 2020

Biden’s New Approach to Turkey: Topple Erdoğan

Aug 16, 2020

Tarek Gara

The Case Against Sykes-Picot

How the 1916 agreement changed the Middle East and International Diplomacy.

Jul 7, 2020

The Case Against Sykes-Picot

Jul 7, 2020

Tarek Gara

Erdoğan: An Axiom of Islamic Leadership or Just a Muslim?

A dissection of the Arab-Turkish relations and an overview of Erdoğan’s Islamism.

May 13, 2020

Erdoğan: An Axiom of Islamic Leadership or Just a Muslim?

May 13, 2020

Tarek Gara

How Islamic is Saudi Arabia?

The levels of Islamism of Saudi Arabia have changed over the years since its “independence” and unification after the fall of the Ottoman…

Mar 31, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Muhammad bin Salman (Photo by Reuters)

Mar 31, 2020

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