Saleh ِAl-Qallab
Jordanian writer, Former Minister of Information, Minister of Culture and Minister of State. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group

Crisis in the Arab World… And a New Arab Initiative

As is apparent to everyone, the Middle East is undergoing broad dynamic change. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the foremost state in the region and a leader that is closely attuned to the concerns, interests, and challenges facing the Arabs in this changing world, stands at the heart of these changes…

We Are Optimistic About the New Agreement

With all the recent developments and the conclusion of a new Saudi-Iranian agreement, which had not been expected in truth, it could be said that this is a "warrior's break" at best. From both recent and older bitter experiences, we have seen that our Iranian brothers often say one thing and do…

The New Path of Israeli-Palestinian Relations

Things have to get worse before they get better…This could well be true for the Arab-Israeli conflict at this critical historical juncture. Anyone who thinks that the great people of Palestine will not overcome the Israelis is deluded. Though the Israelis are putting all of their animosity and…

Why Care about Mao… The Problem is the Reality in Our Arab World

Even if US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping were to sit through a thousand dialogues, the two countries would inevitably clash militarily. Indeed, the tensions between these two countries will inevitably lead to a military confrontation. There is no escaping this…

Iran Calls the Shots and Assad is with a Treacherous Organizations

With the exception of Fatah, all of the Palestinian factions and organizations are manifestations of interference on the part of Arab regimes, some would say non-Arab as well, in Palestinian affairs. Despite pretenses to the contrary, Hamas, in its entirety, is unfortunately actually a card in…

The Real Iran...is Not Today's Iran!

There is no truth whatsoever, with all due respect to our “Iranian brothers,” to the claim that there is such a thing as an Iranian nation. Indeed, I was surprised, as an observer, to find that so-called genealogical DNA tests had demonstrated that 56 percent of this brotherly nation is of Arab…

No Solution But This One for a Conflict of More Than 70 Years

Let us presume, and this is no longer an unlikely or bizarre hypothetical, Arab League summit with full attendance ended with recognizing the state of Israel along the pre-June 1967 borders. This state would become a Middle Eastern entity without expansionist claims or aspirations. The question…

G20 Summit is a Historic Step

It is the first time that an Arab leader, Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, heads the G20 Summit that includes the United States, China and India, in addition, of course, to France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. This summit was preceded by a virtual meeting between these countries’…

No Migration From West Bank... Jordan Has Nothing to Do With Balfour Declaration

Indeed, it is no coincidence that among two former prominent Jordanian officials who had taken part in taking difficult and decisive decisions, one would warn against a transfer, a mass migration, from West Bank to Jordan and the other against a sequel to the Balfour Declaration targeting the east…