David Gardner



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 * Iran poses economic challenge to Saudi Arabia - Opportunities eschewed by Riyadh will be taken up by their neighbours - 27th January 2016
 * A future without sanctions heralds a brighter outlook for Iran - Tehran has an opportunity to become a force for stability in a region in meltdown - 18th January 2016
 * A hole at the heart of the Syrian crisis - The lack of mainstream Sunni leadership is a blight across the Middle East - 28th December 2015
 * Syrian refugees with nowhere left to turn - Displaced people may find only closed doors after Paris attack - 19th November 2015
 * Erdogan’s divisive rule comes at a price - President has used and abused state power to dominate media and purge dissident voices - 3rd November 2015
 * Syria talks seek ‘course out of hell’ - Most nations involved see need for Assad to stay on for while - 30th October
 * Call the Kremlin’s bluff on Syria - Russia’s diplomatic plan conveys a lack of seriousness on its stated intent to battle Isis - 29th October 2015
 * Syria conflict will elude Putin’s control - President tries to show he has a decisive grip on the war but that already looks like a mirage - 23rd October 2015
 * Europe picks a bad moment to engage Turkey - No wonder Erdogan was pictured beaming at his meeting with Merkel - 20th October 2015
 * Russia’s reckless Middle East adventure - Putin thinks that by storming into Syria he has taken rightful leadership of the winning coalition - 7th October 2015
 * We must be realistic about intervention in Syria - The west should help the Sunni majority against both the Assad regime and Isis - 9th September 2015
 * Erdogan has second shot at one-man rule - The assault on the PKK and siege in the south-east are a naked bid for nationalist votes - 28th August 2015
 * Turkey’s bombs reveal failed Syria policy - Erdogan fishing for nationalist votes tries to tar as terrorists the pro-Kurdish coalition - 28th July 2015
 * Money can buy Iran’s restraint in the Gulf - Neighbouring states should use their wealth to tempt nation to pull in its regional horns - 23rd July 2015
 * The toxic rivalry of Saudi Arabia and Isis - Riyadh’s main fear is of being outflanked on the religious right by jihadi extremists - 17th July 2015
 * Syria edges towards partition - As the nation fragments under sectarianism and savagery, could the suffering be nearing its end? - 25th June 2015
 * An activist pope puts his faith in science - Mobilising the rock-star popularity of Francis is like dropping a boulder in a pool full of pebbles - 20th June 2015
 * Erdogan succumbs to the fog of politics - A striking collapse of judgement in a leader who once mesmerised his electorate - 18th June 2015
 * Turks stymie Erdogan’s vaulting ambition - President’s nemesis was pro-Kurdish coalition with appeal to liberals, leftists and women - 9th June 2015
 * Saudi Arabia must act against extremists - The authorities say they have dismantled Isis cells yet they have done little to dissect its ideology - 3rd June 2015
 * Election in Turkey will test Erdogan - Many millions of voters hope the national poll will show the president his limits - 28th May 2015
 * Podemos has set alight Spanish politics - Whether or not it can deliver on its promises, it is already catalysing healthy change - 20th May 2015
 * Gulf Arabs fear Iran with cash as much as Iran with the bomb - They have seen how much Tehran can do with hardly any money, and how little they themselves can do - 13th May 2015
 * Worst ills of Mideast start in classrooms - Civic institutions — and decent public education — are the outcome of a culture of co-operation - 6th May 2015
 * Regional shifts pile pressure on Assad - The stalemate is fracturing and spells danger for Damascus - 1st May 2015
 * Egyptian autocracy bodes ill for region - Prospects bleak without alternative to extremism or autocratic rule - 23rd April 2015
 * Israel fears effect of Bibi’s recklessness - With no timetable, the prime minister will gamble he can outwait Obama’s last two years as president - 24th March 2015
 * Bibi squanders US relations - Israel’s PM may be misjudging the mood in both America and his own nation - 6th March 2015
 * The hideous dialectic of Isis savagery - West should not underestimate the chillingly smart terror group - 19th February 2015
 * A year in a word: Caliphate - A surreal rigmarole that exacerbated the power struggle in the Middle East - 26th December 2014
 * For Saudi Arabia, plunging oil prices are a political weapon - The Wahhabi nation’s visceral hatred of its Shia rivals should be factored into the equation - 10th December 2014
 * The Mideast’s vanishing religious variety - Gerard Russell’s ‘Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms’ explores bygone faiths - 1st December 2014
 * Netanyahu is losing Europe’s goodwill - Israel slow to realise a change in sentiment over Palestine that could challenge its legitimacy - 10th November 2014
 * Jerusalem sites are minefield for Jordan - Jordan is concerned at Israel questioning the status of East Jerusalem’s Muslim holy places - 5th November 2014
 * Isis shows political sophistication - Damaging the fragile cohesion of neighbouring states gives jihadis a reach beyond Syria and Iraq - 29th October 2014
 * Erdogan’s chance for peace with Kurds - This is the last generation of Turkish Kurd leaders with which Ankara could cut a deal - 15th October 2014
 * Politics, not bombs, will defeat Isis - Detente between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran is essential - 27th September 2014
 * Demons tormenting the Middle East - Obama’s idea of a self-regulating balance of power has dissolved in an acid cocktail - 15th August 2014
 * Saudis lose right of Sunni leadership - The kingdom spews out the corrosive poison that helps fuel religion-based fanaticism - 8th August
 * Pointless Gazan war neither side wanted - This latest conflict suggests the threshold of bloodshed has risen - 23rd July 2014
 * Mideast sectarianism masks a power lust - Forces at play have the power to resurrect the zombies of Osama bin Laden and the Ba’ath - 8th July 2014
 * Panic pushes Saudis towards detente with Iran - U-turns do not come bigger than Riyadh’s shift from obloquy to olive branch - 11th June
 * Unruly Erdogan will preside over a divided Turkey - His instinct is to polarise and no one can prove to him that it does not work - 21st May
 * Sisi puts state before democracy in Egypt - Presidential candidate emits exhortations rather than concrete policies - 19th May 2014
 * Lebanon on the brink - Political gridlock, economic torpor and the machinations of Hizbollah have pushed the crossroads of the Middle East to the edge of collapse – again - 17th May 2014
 * Bombast belies interest in nuclear deal - In return for dignity and respect, Iran is ready to break with its past, taking its place in the world - 14th May 2014
 * Poll cannot mask Assad’s vulnerabilities - Future US-Iran detente could leave president as casualty - 30th April 2014
 * An undue chill greets Iran’s nuclear spring - A Tehran with a stake in settling the Middle East’s lethal problems could be transformative - 15th April 2014
 * A second act laden with symbolism - The Irish president’s British visit sets the tone for tests to come - 12th April 2014
 * US plays crooked lawyer in Mideast drama - The Israeli tail is being allowed to wag the US dog - 4th April 2014
 * Spain and Britain need not fear F-word - Separatists may find answers in federalism, even if it sends semantic shivers up the political spine - 7th March 2014
 * Erdogan is source of Turkey’s problems - If he continues to lash out at disembodied conspiracies confidence could collapse - 28th February 2014
 * Changed Syria calculus has buoyed Assad - Incentives applied to Damascus regime have gone perversely wrong - 21st February 2014
 * On the slippery slope of frivolity - Lebanese politicos have been suitably rewarded for their outrage about the skier who posed for a calendar - 20th February 2014
 * Egypt needs inclusive reform not coercion - The imminent anointing of the army chief will prolong the winner-takes-all political culture - 13th February 2014
 * End to Syrian agony needs deal with Iran - The interim nuclear agreement raises the possibility that Tehran will drop Assad - 29th January 2014
 * A Pope rushing to revitalise his Church - Francis’s approach has given heart to a battered flock - 27th December 2013
 * Iran can be a force for regional peace - Tehran wants to end the sanctions and to be seen as a legitimate Middle Eastern power - 22nd November 2013
 * A vacuum is spreading over the region - America wants to move out and Russia wants to move in but the Middle East has ideas of its own - 21st November 2013
 * Iran accord could turn sectarian tide - Getting Iran inside diplomatic tent could ease regional problems - 11th November 2013
 * Assad is killing with starvation - Recent evacuees say they were deprived of bread for nine months - 6th November 2013
 * Geopolitical shifts benefit Iran - Views of the Islamic Republic are shifting as a diplomatic pas de deux with the US begins - 1st November 2013
 * End west’s deference to petrodollars - There is no doubting Riyadh’s horror at the sudden prospect of US-Iranian detente - 30th October 2013
 * Shutdown is just part of life in Lebanon - The resilient Lebanese have an unhealthily high tolerance of chaos. But today’s crisis is different - 23rd October 2013
 * Turkey’s comet looks like a shooting star - Although wilful and erratic, Recep Tayyip Erdogan remains his nation’s towering figure - 7th October 2013
 * The Pope brings glasnost to the Vatican - No one knows how his ideas will fare – but people senses they challenge conservative power - 28th September 2013
 * A US-Iran thaw could be a game-changer - Progress will require Washington and Tehran to clear the thickets of viscera separating them - 23rd September 2013
 * The west is failing the Syrian people - Why would Assad voluntarily surrender chemical weapons? - 12th September 2013
 * A US pinprick strike will not help Syria - There is no chance of an end to this conflict so long as the Assads are in power - 31st August 2013
 * Resource nationalism has many faces - Countries guarding ownership of their oil and gas can have various motives - 19th August 2013
 * Erdogan erodes media freedom - What is left of the independence of Turkey’s press and broadcasters is at risk - 6th August 2013
 * Political Islam faces its sternest test - There is no evidence that Arabs believe Wahhabism is the future - 11th July 2013
 * Qatar shows how to manage a modern monarchy - The emirate’s infusion of new blood contrasts with the hardened arteries in Saudi Arabia - 26th June 2013



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