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Politics.
Politics, Souk Weekly style. Power, palaces, parliaments, and the people quietly rearranging the furniture while everyone else is watching the front door.
PoliticsJun 3
Anti-Corruption Units Are Hiring. The Listings Are More Telling Than the Mandates.
What you can read off a job description, when you read it properly.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsJun 3Every Country Now Has a Ministry of the Future. The Future Is Underwhelmed.
Inside the global rush to bureaucratise the long term, and the suspicion that the long term has noticed.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsDec 2One Market, Six Flags: The Long Road to a Gulf Single Market
The idea of a unified Gulf economy with seamless trade, shared rules and even a common currency has been pursued for decades with halting results.
By Mira Faraj
PoliticsSep 29Talking Instead of Fighting: The Gulf's De-Escalation Turn
After years of rivalry and proxy conflict, a pragmatic logic of mending fences has taken hold across the region's diplomacy.
By Lena Holloway