Claude Salhani

Claude Salhani is a regular columnist for The Arab Weekly.

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A general view of the Mosul Dam Lake north of Mosul, Iraq, May 2, 2018. (Reuters)
A drop in the bucket
August 20, 2019
Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli speaks at the White House, August 12. (AP)
New US immigration rules add brain drain pressures to religious bias
August 17, 2019
Iranian President Hassan Rohani (L), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a news conference after their meeting in Ankara, April 4, 2018. (Reuters)
Major changes under way in US Middle East politics
August 15, 2019
Scanning dreams. Palestinians stand in front of a biometric gate as they enter Israel at the Qalandia crossing in Jerusalem. AP
Israelis need no new software to realise Palestinians have a dream
August 03, 2019
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts during a speech on domestic priorities at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, Britain July 27, 2019. (Reuters)
Bracing for Boris Johnson's next shock statement
July 30, 2019
An Iranian surface-to-surface ballistic missile on display during its inauguration ceremony at an undisclosed location, last February. (AFP)
Iran flexes muscles while Trump sees logic in Obama’s Iran deal
July 20, 2019
The logo of the Central Intelligence Agency is seen at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (AFP)
Why conspiracy theories thrive in the Middle East
July 13, 2019
Opposing tactics. File photo shows Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and US President Donald Trump (R). (Instagram)
Iran and the US are playing a different game
July 13, 2019
US President Donald Trump applauds during an Independence Day celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, July 4. (AP)
Peace in the Middle East requires more courage than handling North Korea’s nukes
July 06, 2019
Loser and friend. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) with Binali Yildirim, his mayoral candidate for Istanbul, attends a parliament session in Ankara, Turkey, June 25, two days after elections(AP)
What lessons will Erdogan learn from Istanbul vote?
June 29, 2019
US national security adviser John Bolton. (AFP)
Can anyone gain from tensions in the Gulf?
June 25, 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman stand next to the dedication plaque at the US embassy in Jerusalem, on March 21. (Reuters)
US administration's wariness about peace plan is handicapping an already stuttering process
June 21, 2019
Successful foreign intervention. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) meets with the chief of Sudan’s ruling military council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in Khartoum, June 7. (AFP)
For Sudan, it could be the light at the end of the tunnel
June 15, 2019
An Iranian woman works on her laptop in Tehran. (Reuters)
Tehran tangled in web of disinformation
June 08, 2019
Cyprus’ Defence Minister Savvas Angelides (2nd L) talks with his Greek counterpart Evaggelos Apostolakis at the presidential palace in Nicosia, May 8. (AP)
Erdogan looks at Cyprus to boost standings in the polls but risks starting a war
June 01, 2019
US President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs for travel to Japan from the White House in Washington, US, May 24, 2019. (Reuters)
Trump’s Middle East peace plan would be brilliant — for post-WWII Europe
May 25, 2019
Uncertain trajectory. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford (C) arrives at a closed briefing for Senate members in Washington, May 21. (AFP)
Half of American adults expect war with Iran ‘within next few years’
May 25, 2019
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Strait of Gibraltar, entering the Mediterranean Sea as it continues operations in the 6th Fleet area of responsibility, April 13, 2019. (Reuters)
US confrontation with Iran could serve too many interests
May 07, 2019
An elderly Palestinian refugee holds the key of her family’s home, in what is now Israel, as she sits at a dwelling in the Balatah refugee camp east of Nablus. (AFP)
Trump’s peace plan brings more questions than answers
May 04, 2019
Egyptian judge Mohammed Fahmy (R) arrives to announce the verdict in the case of Muslim Brotherhood businessman Hassan Malek (not seen in the picture) during the final session of his trial in Cairo on April 30, 2019. (AFP)
Remembering the jihadists' progenitors
May 03, 2019