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The Houthi Conundrum
Trump's bombing campaign failed to bring down the rebel movement running north Yemen, showing once that the permanent rumors of their demise are…
Apr 20
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Andrew Hammond
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December 2024
PIF, Paff, Poof!
Money's going up in smoke at Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, as the government reboots The Line in light of financial constraints
Dec 31, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
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November 2024
Saudi Arabia's Bright Shiny Objects
The Saudi leadership has realized its $1.25 trillion giga-projects are vulnerable to attack, throwing the regime into the arms of... the Houthis?!
Nov 28, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
October 2024
On the Jihadist Wars of No Consequence
Autocracy and oil wealth have allowed a country like Saudi Arabia to wield jihad as a weapon of foreign policy with little blowback for decades
Oct 26, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
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September 2024
The new Saudi foreign policy: 'Why can't we all just get along?!'
Saudi Arabia is frantically making up with old enemies to remove all possible threats to its vast economic reform project
Sep 25, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
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July 2024
Cutting Up The Mountains
Saudi Arabia's latest tourism extravaganza is a luxury resort carved into the ragged rock of the pre-Islamic Nabataean site of Mada'in Saleh
Jul 12, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
June 2024
Gaza: An 'Islamic' Conflict Goes Global
Western concepts of resurgent Islam and revived fundamentalisms are inadequate for understanding the pro-Palestinian Global South
Jun 30, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
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May 2024
Wars As Warnings
From the 'Arab Spring' to Gaza, waning regimes fear their halcyon days as top thug are nearing an end
May 18, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
April 2024
100 Years of Distortion
The UK's attempt smother pro-Palestinian protests by smearing them as Islamist extremism is the latest example in a long history of manipulating a world…
Apr 5, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
4
March 2024
'Hating Arabs'
The Gaza massacre is a belated sequel to the Iraq invasion
Mar 3, 2024
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Andrew Hammond
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December 2023
The Problem of the Quranic al-ṣamad - Part 5
On the meaning of Sura 112 and the Quranic conception of God
Dec 31, 2023
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Andrew Hammond
The Problem of the Quranic al-ṣamad - Part 4
On the meaning of Sura 112 and the Quranic conception of God
Dec 29, 2023
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Andrew Hammond
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