Editor’s Pick:
Fatimah Muhammed and @alamer.bsky.social report on Kuwait’s widening citizenship revocation campaign, which has seen tens of thousands stripped of their nationality, and the history that made it possible.
“This means a truly astonishing 1 in 5 citizens could lose their nationality.”
For 2 years, Kuwait has launched a campaign to strip people of their citizenship. We unpack this unprecedented campaign, placing it in context and explaining what is driving it.
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“It seems, now, that the United States has its own regional policy that is divergent from Gulf countries.” @alamer.bsky.social joins @faisalalyafai.bsky.social on The Lede to discuss how the Iran war has come to the Gulf newlinesmag.com/podcast/how-the-iran-war...
Happy to share my new article on Saudi Arabia’s regional policy.
Setting aside the misplaced talk of a “return to Islamism,” I situate Saudi strategy historically and show how Riyadh’s “zero-conflict” turn is being undermined by ongoing Emirati and Israeli interventionism.
Your Weekly Digest from The Gulf Nashra is out.
- Turkey to Join Saudi-Pakistan Defense Pact
- Qatar Engages with Mediators on the Second Phase of Gaza Agreement
- Oman Launches Five-Year Development Plan
This week's Nashra Picks features a unique book by Françoise De Bel-Air and Nasra Shah, selected analyses by Swapnil Sujal Mahdi Jasim Ghuloom Bouchra A. Lawrence John Calabrese Mohammed Soliman Nikolay Kozhanov, and an insightful webinar hosted by Middle East Institute.
The Gulf Nashra Weekly Digest is out now!
- China Seeks Deeper Gulf Ties
- Saudi-UAE Debates Over Yemen Continue
- A Book on Gulf Migration Futures
Thank you Brian! Hope you like it
Happy to share that my chapter, The Arabian Peninsula Wars (1919–1934), has been published. The edited volume, A Violent Peace, features chapters that move beyond nationalistic narratives and challenge the widely held view that the interwar period was one of global peace.
Academics: have you ever assigned a @newlinesmag.bsky.social article, podcast episode, or video essay in a class? If so, which one(s) and what class(es)? Any and all details welcome! You can respond here, DM me, or e-mail dpostel@newlinesmag.com 🙏
A new Gulf Weekly Digest is out!
Gulf authors discuss Hajj
Bahrain and Qatar negotiate a causeway
MBZ meets Egypt's Sisi
Analysis of Saudi podcasts
A book on Gulf–Horn of Africa relations.
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“Sultan Alamer, a Saudi academic, joked that Mr. Trump’s remarks sounded like they came from Frantz Fanon, a 20th century Marxist thinker who wrote about the dynamics of colonial oppression.”
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NEW: The detention of Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri parallels the cases of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk. His colleague Nader Hashemi reflects for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on his recent visit with Suri in an ICE facility in Texas.
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This week’s picks feature a book on Order and Region Making in the Middle East Edited by @abuaardvark.bsky.social & Simon Mabon.
Analyses by Simon Henderson, Houda Barroug, Jonathan Fulton, and others.
This week's Digest is out!
- Emiratis discuss ICJ genocide case on Sudan
- Saudi defense minister meets Khamenei
- Qatar to invest in Egypt
- New book explores Middle East power plays.
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This week’s Digest covers how Gulf authors discuss the global trade war, old climate record discovered in Saudi Arabia, World Court hears Sudan’s complaint against UAE, and new book explores Gulf religious soft power.
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In this week’s Digest:
• Gulf authors debate their region’s relations with the U.S.
• Qatar has the Gulf’s highest GDP per capita.
• Bahrain cancels direct cash payments to low-income families.
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This week’s Digest covers the Saudi-UAE clash in social media, along with news about an Israeli businessman admiting transferring Qatari money to Netanyahu's aides and a UK corruption lawsuit involving Kuwait.
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Interesting analysis on Gulf, Trump, and Gaza
“Typically, the framing of such announcements would be around security rather than human rights,” said Sultan Alamer, a senior resident fellow at the Washington-based New Lines Institute.
This week’s picks feature a book by Thierry Pastor and Frederic Teboul.
Podcast interviews by Khalid Oun, and Layal Alekhtiar.
Analyses & essays by @alamer.bsky.social, @andrewleber.bsky.social, @tparsi.bsky.social, @alomran.me, and others.
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This week’s Digest is out:
• Gulf authors celebrate International Women’s Day.
• They also debated Zelensky’s Visit to Saudi Arabia.
• Gulf Markets End Mixed.
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“The Saudi Arabia that Trump currently deals with is significantly different from the Saudi Arabia he knew in his first administration.”
Read my new analysis on the impact of Trump’s Middle East policy on Saudi Arabia.
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This week’s Digest
Gulf Authors Debate Trump-Zelensky Clash; Arab Summit for Palestine; Sudan Accuses UAE; and a New Book on the Global Gulf.
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Saudi Arabia’s Personal Status Law is evolving—what does it mean for Saudi women's legal autonomy?
I examine the key changes, their legal and social implications, and the balance between tradition and modernization.
🔍 Read the full piece here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/02/...
🧵How A Saudi Atheist Became A Killer
2 months before German elections, a car drove into a Christmas market in Magdeburg killing 6 people.
When the attacker’s identity was reviled, many struggled to reconcile his atheism with his terrorism.
In this piece, I tell his story.
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This fascinating essay by @doaiji.bsky.social reads like a detective story, full of plot twists, as it explores the life of a Saudi ex-Muslim refugee in Germany who carried out a horrendous attack on a Christmas market two months before the elections.
