Jamila El-Gizuli @jamilaelgizuli

When Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia signed a declaration of principles on March 23, 2015, relating to Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, the three countries did...

As negotiations between the world powers and Iran concluded with a nuclear deal last Thursday, debates arose as to which side came out a winner: the United...

As Operation “Decisive Storm” began to unfold in Yemen on March 26, Saudi Arabia was joined by its usual allies from the Gulf States (with the exception of...

Recent remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry unequivocally relate the Obama’s administration view about the importance of negotiating with the Syrian...

Following the three-day Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in the Red Sea resort port of Sharm El-Sheikh, billions of dollars in commitments by local...

In its annual Global Defence Trade Report released on March 8, 2015, Information Handling Services (IHS, Inc.), a leading source of critical information about...

As Iraqi troops begin their offensive on ISIS positions in Tikrit, it is urgent to reassess the role of neighboring countries in combating the regional menace....

As plans are drawn to recapture Mosul from ISIS, the dominant narrative explaining the group’s appeal lays blame on the lack of education, poverty, and...

This week, Egypt became the first international customer for France's Rafale fighter jets with the purchase of a dozen combat aircrafts along with a frigate...

The horrendous killing of Jordanian pilot Muaz Kasasbeh has yet again confirmed the need to urgently deal with ISIS whose barbarity is beyond imaginable. Thus...

The capital of Oman, Muscat, recently hosted the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) Rail and Metro Conference 2015, which discussed the current status of rail...

Analyses on the reasons behind the recent series of terror attacks in Paris have been almost exclusively  portrayed Islam as characteristically hostile to art...

With falling oil prices, Gulf Cooperation Council countries now face major fiscal challenges, which are prompting them to balance their dwindling revenues...

Dr. Humeira Iqtidar, the author of Secularizing Islamists? Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Urban Pakistan and a lecturer in politics of South Asia at...

During the month of December, a visible military security race has taken place in the Persian Gulf. On December 5, 2014, Britain signed a landmark agreement...

In an op-ed published on al Arabiya on November 23, 2014, Dr. Theodore Karasik, Senior Advisor to Risk Insurance Management in Dubai, UAE, presented the state...

Since the start of the Arab Spring, atheism has become a growing social phenomenon in the region, with an increasing presence on social media outlets. In his...

On Saturday, November 15, 2014, the UAE's ministerial cabinet officially announced a list of over 80 organizations designated as terrorist groups. The...

In the wake of reports that Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State (IS), has been critically wounded in a recent American-led...

On October 30th, 2014, Ian Black, the Guardian's Middle East editor, wrote an op-ed that highlighted the regional ambitions of the United Arab Emirates. These...

On October 26th, 2014, the Saudi Women’s Driving Campaign dismissed ludicrous warnings about the damaging effects of driving on ovaries and courageously...

On October 19th, 2014, Informed Comment published an article by Mustafa Gurbuz, a policy fellow at Center for Global Policy at George Mason University and a...

This weekend, U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced that Turkey agreed to participate in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS)....

This week, El Haqed, the “Enraged One,”  a prominent Moroccan rapper-activist released on September 18th, 2014 from his third stint in prison, wrote an...

On September 10, 2014, President Barack Obama laid out his strategy for degrading and destroying the Islamic State (IS), outlining a plan to “mobilize Sunni...

President Obama’s political gaffe in stating that the United States has no strategy to deal with the Islamic State (IS) in Syria has generated a wave of...

As political crises continue to destabilize Ukraine with no resolution in sight, the country's other problems are receiving less attention. Ukraine's energy...

On August 12, 2014, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Russia for a one-day tour. Sisi had previously visited Russia last February, while...

U.S. President Barack Obama has finally decided to act against the militants of the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria...

Marwan Bishara, senior political analyst at Al Jazeera, recently wrote an op-ed about the transformation of the word chutzpah from negative connotations of...

As with any invader set on pursuing territorial expansion and political might, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) views displacing communities residing...

In March 2011, a 30-year-old Russian national, Roman Seleznev, was indicted in Seattle, Washington, on charges that include bank fraud, identity theft, and...

Last week, I wrote about contrasting arguments on the future of ISIS. Similar debates are also taking place on the reasons behind ISIS’s current success in...

Over the weekend, many Muslims began observing the holy month of Ramadan. Simultaneously, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, (ISIS), and its new ruler,...

Last week, presidential candidate General Abdul Fattah el-Sisi garnered 94.5 percent of the votes cast by Egyptians living abroad. The overseas polling...

On Sunday, May 18th, the Omani ex-minister of commerce, Mohammed al-Khusaibi, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 800,000 Omani rials...

Last week, I wrote about the primacy of joint security over economic and political disagreements amongst the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council...

During the past few months, tensions within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have reached unprecedented levels. But recent developments indicate that in the...

Non-Arab and non-Muslim freedom-fighters are flocking to the Middle East to struggle for freedom on behalf of others, as well as themselves. Al-Jazeera has a...

Despite experiencing civil war and destruction, Damascus now boasts the world’s largest mural made of recycled material, according to the Guinness Book of...

Wreckage of a military vehicle after a militant attack in North Sinai (photo credit: presstv) After the political vacuum left by the Egyptian Revolution in...

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan and his counterpart John Kerry (photo credit: Xinhua) On March 10th, the UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a...

Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamed Al-Khalili, the Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, holding his latest book Al-Istibdad (Tyranny: Its Manifestations and its...

Last week, the Saudi Supreme Judicial Council issued directives to judges and notaries confirming that women no longer need male “identifiers” to vouch for...

Kuwaiti MP, Nabil Fadhl, proposed a counterterrorism draft law emulating the Saudi royal decree (photo credit: AFP/rt.com). On February 3rd, Saudi Arabia...

Land and water-rich Sudan may become the regional breadbasket under the Arab Food Security Initiative, but at whose expense? (photo credit:...

In Kuwait, public sector employees found a way to beat fingerprinting machines (photo credit: China News) According to the Kuwait Times, employees working...

According to Kleindienst Group, The Heart of Europe is a "development that merges the continent’s magnificent history of culture, art and traditions into...

In 2010, Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi displayed a 10-million-dollar Christmas tree (Photo credit: www.arabianbusiness.com) In the United Arab Emirates, a...

The flip side of the competition between Middle East exporters is that Asian refiners are benefiting from cheaper oil bills. (Photo credit:...

H W J N, a Saudi sci-fi novel removed from shelves for blasphemy (Photo credit: indexoncensorship.org) On November 26th, the Saudi religious police removed...

Hipster Shaadi caters to proud Muslim Americans with "American-born kids interests" (Photo credit: Hipster Shaadi website). Recently, there has been a boom...

According to Amnesty International, majority of the abuses involved workers employed by small subcontractors (Photo credit: Karim Jaafar/AFP) The saga of...

In a recent article, published on The National, the UAE’s leading English-language newspaper, Mitya Underwood writes about the “complexity surrounding...

Mahmoud Bouneb, a Tunisian-Canadian expatriate, has been trapped in Qatar for more than two years . (photo credit: Doha News.) After the recent violation...

In the first half of 2013, 710,000 Saudi tourists visited Dubai. (Photo credit: Pankaj Sharma/Gulf News.) Dubai intends on meeting the rising demands for...

The ITUC estimates the number of migrant workers in Qatar at 1.2 million. (photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Image) In an exclusive report by Pete Pattisson...

Sudanese opposition leaders including al-Mahdi (first right) and al-Turabi (second right). In June 2013, the National Consensus Forces (NCF), a coalition...

On Thursday, July 25th, 2013, in a ceremony broadcast by several regional TV and radio channels, the foundation stone for Al-Mrah , the first satellite TV...

Soon after Mohamed Morsi’s ouster as president of Egypt, petrodollars from the Gulf countries came thick and fast. The troika of Saudi Arabia, UAE,...