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Features What Are the Potential Implications of the Houthi Terrorist Designation?

What Are the Potential Implications of the Houthi Terrorist Designation?

International, regional, Arab and United Nations efforts throughout the past ten years have failed in transforming the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen…

Ali Rabih (Aden)
Interviews WEF President: New Technologies Key to Fighting Climate Change

WEF President: New Technologies Key to Fighting Climate Change

From fighting climate change, to building an inclusive post pandemic economic model and managing migratory flows, the President of the World Economic Forum…

Najlaa Habriri (London)
Features Is There a Link Between Syria and Ukraine?

Is There a Link Between Syria and Ukraine?

Geneva is hosting two meetings on Friday. The first between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to discuss Ukraine…

Ibrahim Hamidi (London)
Features AFRICOM: Al-Qaeda, ISIS Unity Efforts Threaten Lake Chad Basin

AFRICOM: Al-Qaeda, ISIS Unity Efforts Threaten Lake Chad Basin

Last year, the US withdrawal from wars in Somalia and Afghanistan turned attention to other theaters of conflicts around the world to see if they, in turn,…

Camille Tawil (London)
Interviews WHO to Asharq Al-Awsat: Work Underway on Coexistence Strategy for Coronavirus

WHO to Asharq Al-Awsat: Work Underway on Coexistence Strategy for Coronavirus

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working on a strategy to coexist with the pandemic during the coming months, revealed WHO Regional Director for the…

Fatehelrahman Yousif (Riyadh)
Features What Will Scientific Research Offer Us in 2022?

What Will Scientific Research Offer Us in 2022?

Two years on from the World Health Organization declaring it a pandemic on March 11, 2020, we cannot discuss scientific developments in isolation of COVID-19’s…

Khawla Al-Kuraya
Features Will We Be Faced with a New Economic Order in 2022?

Will We Be Faced with a New Economic Order in 2022?

With the beginning of the second year after the pandemic, the poles of the global economy, along with developed countries, are facing new structural challenges…

Mashari Althaydi
Interviews Yemen PM to Asharq Al-Awsat: Battle of Liberation Will Not Stop

Yemen PM to Asharq Al-Awsat: Battle of Liberation Will Not Stop

Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik warned that keeping the capital Sanaa under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militias will make it a platform for…

Abdulhadi Habtor (Aden)
Features Several Challenges Face Tunisia, Region in 2022

Several Challenges Face Tunisia, Region in 2022

The countries of the southern Mediterranean, including Tunisia, are facing several economic, social, political and security challenges in 2022. The situation…

Elyes Fakhfakh
Features Towards a Bigger Country for Culture: Six Steps Towards the Future

Towards a Bigger Country for Culture: Six Steps Towards the Future

For many years, I was part of a group of Saudi academics, writers, and people engaged in all kinds of cultural work, who would head to Arab capitals such as…

Saad Al-Bazei
Features Giants Brigades ... Striking Fear in the Houthis on the Coast and in the Desert

Giants Brigades ... Striking Fear in the Houthis on the Coast and in the Desert

The southern Giants Brigades have imposed a new equation in the fight against the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen. The Houthis have grown terrified of the…

Abdulhadi Habtor (Shabwah)
Entertainment Cinema ElHoush Champions Independent Films

Cinema ElHoush Champions Independent Films

Saudi Arabia's firs art house, Cinema ElHoush is championing independent movies, which veer away from mainstream commercial film-making. Independent films are…

Eman Al-Khattaf (AlUla)