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Middle East

The Victim Politics

S Prasannarajan

Politics driven by industrial victimhood is hollow

India-Israel Romance: Anxiety Over the Amity

The India-Israel romance irks the Middle East a bit but it has not damaged India’s interests in the region so far

The Ideological Threat of Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s most daring heretic, argues for a war on Islamist missionaries

The Big Battle Over Crude Oil

Has Opec lost control of prices at long last?

The Slow Road

Friends, food and conversations

The Myth of Islamic Exceptionalism

The struggles and failures of liberalism are not religion-specific

Around the World in Weighty Days

There is much to worry about in the age of higher volatility and lesser leadership

Our Conscience Is Their Only Home

The Caliphate of Hate cannot be undone by military power alone

Women Voting in Saudi Arabia

Women form 42 per cent of the country’s population and they have consistently been outperforming men on metrics such as literacy

Our Recurring Nightmare

The MERS-CoV virus, closely related to the coronaviruses found in bats, has moved from the Middle East to other parts of the world. The WHO’s Director General calls it her greatest concern

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