Indian foreign policy has successfully navigated the multiple levels of contestations in the Gulf and West Asia by maintaining and keeping cordial relation with all the key actors in the region.
That the Gulf is a site of Baluch nationalist imagination is an open secret – books and literature on Baloch independence are found in routine bookstores of Muscat. The former chief of Dubai Police tweeted calling for an independent Baluchistan.
As I witness Israelis living in such difficult times, the Covid-19 pandemic seems tolerable. However, the Independence Day siren of Israel raises many questions than the rocket alarms I’ve heard.
A clever mastermind of unconventional warfare, Soleimani supported and guided terror groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihadis, Yemeni Houthis and Shia militias in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Middle East as a cartographic notion is a product of the European Imagination with respect to its thoughts about the Ottoman Empire. The Middle East therefore is studied through a dominant western gaze.
The ‘Umma’ is the notion of one Muslim Community under God. However, the Middle East, has been fractious since 632 AD, with the deep Sunni- Shia fissures, hence the ‘Umma’ is a contested space rather than a monolith.
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