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Arab Digest is where business leaders and experts on the Middle East and North Africa come together to share analysis and insight about the issues in the region that matter most. contact email: editor@arabdigest.org
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Covid - 19, The Oil Price Crash And The MENA Region

Former UK ambassador to the UN Sir Jeremy Greenstock explores the impact of two massive shocks to MENA and assesses the economic and political direction the region is headed toward post-pandemic. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

May 15, 2020•24 min

Oman: A New Sultan And New Challenges

The ECFR's Cinzia Bianco discusses the challenges Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tarek faces in an increasingly volatile neighbourhood. Can he maintain the legacy of Sultan Qaboos and continue to steer the country's neutral path or will pressures from Saudi Arabia and the UAE as well as a distressed economy force him to abandon course? Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

May 01, 2020•23 min

Haftar Suffers Big Defeats But War Grinds On In Libya

A discussion with Tarek Megerisi, policy fellow with the North Africa and Middle East programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. As UAE-backed Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar suffers significant losses and Turkey ups support for the GNA, the risk the grows the proxy war will become more intense with disastrous consequences for Libyan people. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Apr 24, 2020•33 min

Post Covid-19 what is the future for political Islam in MENA?

Courtney Freer, research fellow at the London School of Economics Middle East Programme, discusses political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood in the MENA region. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Apr 17, 2020•20 min

Not even Covid-19 can end the Gulf Feud

Baker Institute fellow and associate Chatham House fellow Kristian Coates Ulrichsen discusses the bitter feud that divides the GCC. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Apr 10, 2020•28 min

MENA Post Covid - 19

How will coronavirus change the political, social and economic landscape of the MENA region? A conversation with Sami Hamdi, editor-in-chief of The International Interest. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Apr 03, 2020•20 min

Who blinks first? Saudi Arabia, Russia and the oil price war glutting (and gutting) the marketplace

Alastair Newton analysizes the oil price war for Arab Digest. Alastair worked as a professional political analyst in the City of London from 2005 to 2015. Before that he spent 20 years as a career diplomat with the British Diplomatic Service. He is a regular contributor to Arab Digest. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Mar 27, 2020•22 min

Yemeni women's rights activist Misk AlJunaid discusses the war

As the 5th anniversary of the Yemen war approaches, Yemeni women's rights activist Misk AlJunaid calls on international organisations to ensure women are at the heart of the peace process. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Mar 20, 2020•14 min

Whither Dubai’s Expo 2020?

Dubai had great expectations about what Expo 2020 would deliver. As Covid-19 continues its global onslaught now is the time to rethink those expectations. Sign up NOW at Arabdigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.

Mar 18, 2020•8 min
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