Why does the Military Dominate Pakistan?
On September 17, 2025, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SDMA) in Riyadh, formalising decades of military cooperation into a binding pact in which aggression against one is considered an act against both. The pact comes in the wake of Israeli airstrikes on Doha, growing scepticism over American security guarantees within…
From Diriyah of 1727 to Vision 2030: History, Legitimacy, and the Reinvention of Saudi National Identity
History is never a neutral archive of bygone events but is rather a political resource. It has been used by nations to revisit and reinterpret their past not only to honour memory but to reimagine their identities and power aspirations. In this context, Saudi Arabia’s decision in 2022 to designate 22 February as “Founding Day”…
Tryst with a knife: Hassan Blasim and The Corpse Exhibition
Thomas De Quincey, the inaugurator of addiction literature in the West and an essayist of consummate variety, wrote an essay titled “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.” In it, he describes the moment when Macbeth becomes removed from the divine in the human (that is, love, understanding, etc.), and when the fiendish follies…
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