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Turkey-Qatar: the reasons behind an alliance
Turkey-Qatar on one side, Saudi Arabia and UAE on the other, competition between them tilts power within Sunni Islam and the Middle East. The...
The US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Israel will meet in June in Bahrain for Jared Kushner's economic plan to redraw the balance...
Washington-Riyadh: a dangerous friendship
While Obama opened up towards Iran, Trump has boosted the alliance with Riyadh. Let’s see why President Trump's decision to become a...
BOOKS – Wahhabism and Political Islam
What is the theological basis of Islam? How does the Wahhabi doctrine differ from Sunni Islam? In the book Wahhabism and the...
The Sunni/Shiite clash has led to a new feud among Sunnis: Wahhabism (petro-states) and the Muslim Brotherhood face off on both politics and economics...
The Saudi’s incoregible behaviour
Abd al-Wahhab’s teachings are a double edged sword for the Saud regime in the 20th century, which no longer controls the fundamentalists who believe...
Macron’s European Renaissance has found a partner: the Ecolòs, who add a more far-sighted approach to En Marche’s muscular pro-Europeanism The European...
Turkmenistan, rich and inaccessible
Isolated and authoritarian, it is the fourth largest gas reserve in the world. But financial difficulties do not allow bringing that gas to the...
China won’t impose models on the West: far from it. By opening up yet sticking to its own ways and traditions, it is aiming...
Khorgos, a pearl in the desert
A natural cross-roads between Russia, China and Eastern Europe has now been transformed into a huge land trading hub, with no tariffs or VAT...
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