The Qatar Strike and the Illusions of Gulf Security
It is often said that the only predictability about the Middle East’s geopolitics is its unpredictability, and yet what has remained remarkably consistent is the structural myopia of its regional security frameworks, particularly the one followed by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members. Israel’s targeted strikes on Hamas leadership in Doha on September 9 have…
Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims: A Decade of Stateless Suffering and International Indifference
It has been over eight years since the skies over Rakhine state in Myanmar were lit with the smouldering fires of Rohingya Muslim villages, as the military razed hundreds of settlements, sexually assaulted women, and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homeland, dangerously crossing the Naf River into Bangladesh in dinghies. All this happened…
Review of Ahmed Rashid’s “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia”
As the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2021 after two decades of fighting the Afghan Taliban following the 2001 invasion, it ironically enabled the same Islamist group to regain control of the country. The Taliban has since doubled down on re-implementing its ideological project in the country. The endurance of this group,…
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