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.
For the countries of the Gulf the Coronavirus pandemic is a historic inflection point as the future presents many uncomfortable realisations, questions and options.
Since imports account for nearly 84% of India’s petroleum consumption, any change in the global prices significantly impacts the prices in the country.
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.
Visuals of migrants walking hundreds of kilometres have scarred the national consciousness and compelled the middle classes to ask uncomfortable questions. How are we treating the communities who work for/around us?
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.
Never let a crisis go to waste, is a maxim global power player(s) know very well. The Saudi-Russia standoff in which their oil pricing mechanism talks broke off, led Saudi Arabia to flex its muscles and flood the market with oil.
The sentiments of Israelis with the nation can only be understood once you visit the country and listen to the stories of their great grandfathers being killed, cousins being separated or them being looked down upon in other countries.
Oman is an ethnically diverse country with Ibadhi Arabs, Sunni Baluchi’s, Zanzibari’s, Shia Ajmi’s, Hindu Bania’s among others making it a melting pot of tribes and cultures contrary to a linear identity anchored in Arab Bedouin narratives cultivated by its neighbours.
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.
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