If you liked Covid, you'll love climate change
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edmundsbower
Nov 8, 20213 min read
Does Biden hate the Abraham Accords?
How will Trump’s foreign policy be remembered? Badly, it is safe to see. In just four years, Trump ripped the US out of the Paris,...
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edmundsbower
Oct 15, 20213 min read
Saudi Arabia is trying to leave Yemen as quietly as possible
It was a sorry day in the history of the United Nations Human Rights Council as its members voted, last Thursday, to end a monitoring...
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edmundsbower
Oct 12, 20213 min read
The sands of Tyne-side
How bizarre are last week’s pictures of Newcastle fans celebrating outside St James’s Park wearing keffiyehs and holding aloft Saudi...
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edmundsbower
Sep 3, 20214 min read
How Biden lost Britain
When has a Conservative MP openly called the US president “a blithering idiot?” Is there any precedent for a chair of the foreign affairs...
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edmundsbower
Aug 16, 20213 min read
The time for negotiations in Afghanistan was 2001
Only last Tuesday, an anonymous US intelligence officer told The Washington Post that the US military expected Kabul to fall after 30 to...
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edmundsbower
Aug 3, 20213 min read
The Taliban flag flies along Afghanistan's borders
One of the Taliban tactics that most frustrated NATO forces in Afghanistan was the group’s tendency not to hold territory it gained....
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edmundsbower
Aug 2, 20214 min read
What Egypt can teach Lebanon about currency crises
Lebanon is finally closing in on a new prime minister. After almost a year of the caretaker cabinet that took control when the former...
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edmundsbower
Jul 20, 20214 min read
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the spyware
When The Guardian, as part of its report on the use of Israeli-made spyware to infiltrate the phones of civilians the world over,...
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edmundsbower
Jul 14, 20214 min read
Bagram abandoned
Last week’s images of the abandoned Bagram airbase are striking. For most of the last 20 years, the Cold War-era military compound more...
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edmundsbower
Mar 11, 20213 min read
The Squadron
In February 2015, the Egyptian Air Force surprised the country when six of its F-15s bombed ISIS targets in Libya in retaliation for the...
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edmundsbower
Jan 13, 20212 min read
In the Eastern Mediterranean, Erdogan has a point
On Monday, Turkey and Greece announced that diplomats from both countries will meet in Istanbul this month to negotiate the maritime...
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edmundsbower
Jan 12, 20214 min read
What the Capitol Hill storming means for Iran
For years, US policy in the Persian Gulf has oscillated increasingly further between Democrat and Republican administrations. Just as a...
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edmundsbower
Jan 5, 20213 min read
The Arab Quartet walks back its failed boycott
On Monday it was announced that the three-and-a-half year blockade of Qatar will be lifted. The “Arab Quartet” of Saudi Arabia, the UAE,...
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edmundsbower
Jan 4, 20213 min read
A cold peace
In the 2005 hit “The Embassy in the Building” (السفارة في العمارة) comedy icon Adel Emam plays a man who returns to his native Cairo...
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