Claude Salhani

Claude Salhani is a regular columnist for The Arab Weekly.

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White House adviser Jared Kushner (C) attends a plenary session at the Middle East summit in Warsaw, February 14. (Reuters)
In Warsaw, conflicting agendas stand in the way
February 16, 2019
A displaced Syrian girl poses at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. (AFP)
How the West’s own problems are affecting the Middle East
February 14, 2019
A woman holds a placard during a demonstration to mark a previous anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran. (Reuters)
40 years ago, Shariat-Madari warned me against Khomeini’s intent
February 09, 2019
US Vice-President Mike Pence (L) and Callista Gingrich (2nd-L) as US President Donald Trump (R) speaks during a White House signing ceremony for a bill that activates support for Christians and Yazidis targeted by ISIS. (AFP)
Trump’s clash with Intelligence is not smart politics
February 01, 2019
A Syrian soldier stands at a checkpoint as a Russian military police vehicle passes by near the village of Almajdiyeh, last August. (AP)
The new game Russia, China play
January 26, 2019
A metal sculpture is seen at Mount Bental, an observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that overlooks the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing, Israel January 21, 2019. (Reuters)
Springtime for Bibi and the mullahs
January 25, 2019
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (C) and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb (R) prior to Christmas Eve mass in the newly inaugurated Cathedral of Nativity in Egypt's New Administrative Capital east of Cairo, on January 6, 2019.
Urging rethink at al-Azhar
January 18, 2019
Former French boxing champion Christophe Dettinger (R) is seen during clashes with French Gendarmes at a demonstration by the "yellow vests" on the passerelle Leopold-Sedar-Senghor bridge in Paris, France, January 5, 2019. (Reuters)
Even amid a crisis, Paris is not Khartoum
January 11, 2019
Iranian parents visit a doctor to perform a health check on their son in northern Tehran. (Reuters)
Iran now takes on its academics
January 05, 2019
In this Jan. 2, 2019, photo, acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, left, and acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP)
Trump fails to recognise Middle East threats
January 05, 2019
A Syrian Kurdish man participates in a demonstration against Turkish threats in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli, December 28. (AFP)
Once again, Kurds are forgotten in the final chapter
January 03, 2019
Actor Jackie Chan in a scene from “The Foreigner.” (AP)
Iran’s mullahs uncanny concern for sex scenes
January 03, 2019
US Army soldiers surveil the area during a combined joint patrol in Manbij, last November. (AP)
Trump’s exit from Syria is a mistake of ‘gigantic proportion’
December 20, 2018
A Syrian man mourns as he sits on the rubble following an air strike on the southern village of Quneitra, last September. (AFP)
The Middle East is too predictable to belie predictions
December 20, 2018
Protestors react after Turkish police used tear gas against rights activists in Istanbul, November 25. (AFP)
The incredible chutzpah of Turkish, Iranian leaders
December 14, 2018
A Palestinian woman walks past a portrait of late leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP)
The two faces of the Palestinian dilemma
December 08, 2018
People look at the Kalashnikov Group store in Moscow, on October 14. (AFP)
From Russia with confusion
November 30, 2018
Into Iran’s orbit. An Iranian woman walks past a Qatar Airways branch in Tehran. (AFP)
Qatar’s unfriendly skies
November 28, 2018
Flawed system. An Iraqi man pays for groceries with a 10,000-Iraqi dinar banknote in Baghdad. (AFP)
Blaming the rain for Iraq’s corruption
November 23, 2018
Louder than ever. A supporter of Italy’s far-right Forza Nuova party shouts slogans during a demonstration in Rome. (Reuters)
Europe’s far-right plots and the reasons to worry
November 17, 2018