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16 pieces filed under geopolitics
Regional Dynamics Shift as Global Powers Adjust Strategies
Souk Weekly analyzes the evolving geopolitical landscape in the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on recent developments and their implications for trade, security, and diplomatic relations.
By Rasha Karim
WorldJul 25
Navigating the Shifting Sands: Regional Dynamics in MENA and South Asia
The Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia continue to grapple with economic challenges as geopolitical tensions persist.
By Rasha Karim
PoliticsJul 25
Regional Tensions Escalate as Trade Disputes and Diplomatic Rifts Persist
Souk Weekly examines the intricate web of trade disputes, diplomatic rifts, and political maneuvering across the Middle East and North Africa.
By Rasha Karim
WorldJul 22
Middle East and North Africa: The Shifting Sands of Regional Politics
As tensions rise over regional security, economic reforms, and diplomatic ties, the Middle East and North Africa continue to navigate complex geopolitical landscapes.
By Rasha Karim
PoliticsJul 19
Regional Dynamics Shift as Gulf States Navigate Economic Reforms
Souk Weekly examines the ongoing political and economic adjustments in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, focusing on the latest policies and their impact.
By Rasha Karim
PoliticsJul 10
Middle East Continues to Navigate Geopolitical Turbulence Amidst Economic Challenges
The region grapples with internal and external pressures, seeking stability amidst complex international relations.
By Rasha Karim
WorldJun 28
The Indian Ocean Is Quietly Becoming the Center of the World Again
For centuries the ocean linking the Gulf, East Africa, and South Asia was the heart of trade, and it is quietly returning to that role
By Sara Qureshi
WorldJun 4
The Second Passport Has Become a Piece of Furniture, Not a Decision
Why the regional professional class has stopped treating the second citizenship as an ambitious life choice and started treating it as a moderately interesting drawer in the desk.
By Priya Chen
WorldJun 4
The Airport Transit Zone Is Now the Region's Most Underrated Soft Power Instrument
Forget the embassies. Forget the cultural attaches. The first impression of a country is now formed in the eight minutes between the jetbridge and the connecting gate.
By Mira Faraj
WorldJun 3
The Suitcase Economy of the Arrivals Hall Is Bigger Than the Trade Statistics
Why a quietly enormous category of regional cross-border commerce is moving in passengers' checked baggage, and why nobody who tracks trade data is counting it.
By Mira Faraj
WorldJun 3
A Global Shipping Route Just Quietly Rerouted Itself
It was not in any communique. It was not announced. It happened in the AIS data three weeks ago and the only people who have noticed are the people who pay for AIS data.
By Mira Faraj
WorldJun 3
Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines
Why a region nobody in Gulf finance was thinking about three years ago is suddenly on every infrastructure desk's whiteboard.
By Marcus Okafor
WorldJun 3
The Diaspora Is Banking Differently. The Banks Have Not Quite Noticed.
Why the remittance corridor between a particular pair of countries is being quietly disintermediated, and what the incumbent banks are doing about it, which is mostly nothing.
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 3
The Embassy Iftar Is the Most Underestimated Instrument of Regional Foreign Policy
Why a single carefully assembled guest list, served on a single carefully assembled plate, can do more strategic work in three hours than a year of communiques.
By Lena Holloway
WorldJun 3
North African Renewables Are Quietly Becoming a Gulf Investment Story
Why several Gulf funds have started buying meaningful positions in renewables projects across North Africa, and what the local governments are doing about it.
By Lena Holloway
PoliticsSep 29
Talking 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