Mohammed al-Rumaihi

As the third anniversary of the events of October 7, 2023, passed a few days ago, the question that disappeared amid the noise of those early days returns: Where do we go with the Palestinian cause? Since that day, the Middle East has witnessed some of its most severe political, economic, and…

The first thing Iran needs at this critical juncture is to reconcile with itself. I mean here the ruling groups that contest decision-making, and that the world cannot possibly deal with as a single voice. No mediator, however skilled, can produce a stable agreement with a party whose negotiator…

The Iranian regime has planted its proxies in more than one Arab country to the point of eclipsing the state itself. The objective was to dominate the region. The Houthis, meanwhile, have attacked neighboring countries and disrupted the global economy in support of that goal. So who is the…

For some time now, I have been following discussions about renewed attempts to launch a Sudanese-Sudanese national dialogue. Like every Arab, I hope one of these efforts succeeds in bringing an end to this tragedy, which has dragged on far longer than it should have. Yet Arab experiences, and…

The publishers of Al-Qafilah, a long-established cultural magazine issued by Aramco, have been sending me its quarterly issues for years. At a time when some Arab cultural magazines have lost their distinguished standing, having lost the capacity to keep pace with developments, Al-Qafilah has gone…

He said to his companion, as the two of them watched the Middle East unfold on the screen: I have a feeling the Iranian project in the region has entered a phase of decline — and perhaps the retreat is no longer gradual, as it was, but closer to a rupture. His companion asked: and your evidence?…

A message has been sent through the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani trilateral defense agreement, whose preparation took more than a year: that any assault on the security of the Gulf states ultimately means an assault on the security of the entire region. The signatory states deemed it necessary to send…

My friend Mishary al-Dhayidi wrote in this newspaper a few days ago that anyone seeking to understand the Iranian regime's behavior cannot rest on judging it by his own logic; he must also try to see the world through the regime's eyes. The idea struck me as a key to an important dimension of…

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed is a writer who approaches Gulf affairs with balance and clear judgment. Writing about this issue differs from writing about almost any other as relations among the Gulf states are governed not by slogans, but by precise calculations that combine politics with the bonds of…

Does the Iranian experience since 1979 represent a model of political modernity rooted in religion, or is it better understood as a narrative that combines modern populism with traditional social and political structures? That question remains open, because understanding post-revolutionary Iran is…