Salman Al-Dossary
Salman Al-Dossary is the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.

A Reminder that the Qatar Crisis Has Entered its 4th Year

In its first year, the Qatar crisis used to be measured in months. During its second year, it began to be measured in years. Now, after three years of boycott, the years go by and no one blinks an eye – except of course, the boycotted country, whose crisis grows worse the longer it goes on. …

Twitter Battle: Political Stance or Marketing Stunt?

This time around, Twitter chose it battle well. It set its target and fired its shots towards the president of the most powerful country in the world. It took the unprecedented step of adding a fact-checking label to President Donald Trump’s tweet that the upcoming US elections will be rigged…

Coronavirus … Coexistence Is the Solution

Coexistence has always been a solution to many social issues, and today it is the most appropriate way to deal with the pandemic of the century: Coronavirus. Governments have no other option but to confront the virus, rather than completely closing their borders and risking the continued…

Have the Prices of Oil Collapsed?

Our generation is destined to witness unprecedented historic developments. The world had not yet recovered from the coronavirus crisis and its impact on human interactions and behavior, before it was confronted with a historic drop in oil prices. For the first time ever, the prices plummeted below…

Coronavirus: Strict Rules and Order Save Lives

From now, people will know that nothing is unimaginable and that they need to rethink everything that they have read about in books and seen in fantasy movies. Not since the Second World War have societies seen such a dramatic change as they are now seeing during the coronavirus outbreak. Airports…

Coronavirus: The Worst is Yet to Come

For the first time in nearly a hundred years, diseases are posing a greater danger to people than wars. The danger that threatened the farthest point in Asia is the same danger confronted by Europe and the United States. The sympathetic eyes of the world were at one point turned towards China as it…

Erdogan in The Trap Alone

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long presented himself as a skillful player. Turkey, a secular state with a brotherhood spirit, is a NATO member who has strong military ties with Russia. Erdogan defends Syrians on one hand while occupying their country and bombing their citizens on the…

A Corona-free Umrah

In many countries around the world, starting internationally from China and passing regionally through Iran, the new Coronavirus has spread and countries are racing to take precautions to deter this illness before it turns into a pandemic. Cities are closed, flights are halted and citizens are…

Who Remembers the Qatar Crisis?

When the four countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain) severed their relations with Qatar, nearly two and a half years ago, because of its constant incitement to extremism and the financing of terrorist groups, the Qatari crisis was then talk of the Gulf councils, and it continued to…

Turkey and Cloning Iranian Militias

It is probably the only case in the world where fighters would leave their own war-torn country to head to another to fight in a war that has nothing to do with them. This is all in credit to the state that is sponsoring them, Turkey, which has decided to exploit and send them to Libya. Some 3…