Gulf states

  • Jul 2, 2018
  • 7 min read

Polarised Gulf media will obscure facts

The adjustment of local media to a lasting intra-Gulf rift is reducing the availability of unbiased information

Gulf states
  • Jun 27, 2018
  • 2 min read

Qatari-Emirati legal forum-shopping will be costly

Opponents in the Gulf split have called up their teams of international lawyers

Qatar
  • Jun 27, 2018
  • 2 min read

Gulf allies will save Bahrain's dollar peg -- for now

Despite better long-term hydrocarbons prospects, Manama's immediate fiscal situation is dire

Bahrain
  • Jun 22, 2018
  • 7 min read

Ruling-family stability will prevail in isolated Qatar

The Saudi-led boycott has exposed previously hidden factionalism within the ruling Al Thani family

Qatar
  • Jun 21, 2018
  • 7 min read

Prospects for the Gulf states to end-2018

Tensions over Iran and Qatar will persist, as economic pressures ease

Gulf states
  • Jun 12, 2018
  • 2 min read

Gulf aid may delay Jordan's woes at a political cost

Protests in Amman have halted for now, with the king promising to reverse reforms and an influx of new cash

Jordan
  • Jun 7, 2018
  • 2 min read

Gulf diplomatic war will bed down for the long term

Abu Dhabi and Riyadh’s trumpeting of routine bilateral cooperation is directed against Doha

Gulf states
  • May 17, 2018
  • 2 min read

New US-Gulf pressure on Lebanon’s Hezbollah is risky

Amid the rush of intensified US sanctions on Iran, Washington and its allies are targeting Tehran’s protege Hezbollah

Lebanon