Claude Salhani

Claude Salhani is a regular columnist for The Arab Weekly.

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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
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) and his son Yair visit the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, March 18 2015. (AFP)
The son-in-law, the son and the spelling of ‘Palestine’
May 03, 2019
Warmed over. A 2013 file picture shows tug boats assisting the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) as it pulls away from the pier at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. (Reuters)
Iran crossing the line from bravado to absurdity
May 03, 2019
Hezbollah scouts raise their fists and cheer as they listen to a speech of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, via a video link, on April 22, 2019. (AP)
Nurturing Hezbollah's paranoia
April 27, 2019
Mothers and relatives of Lebanese citizens who disappeared or went missing since the Lebanese civil war in 1975, on November 28, 2018. (AFP)
Remembering the Lebanese civil war, 44 years on
April 25, 2019
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (seated C) and members of parliament wearing the outfit of the IRGC during a session at the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Tehran, April 9. (AFP)
Declaring the IRGC a terrorist organisation is not the last of US pressures on Iran
April 18, 2019
A member of the Libyan security forces looks at a Libyan army helicopter that was hit by shrapnel following an air strike at Mitiga International Airport in, April 8. (AFP)
Getting out of the Libyan impasse
April 13, 2019
Ekrem Imamoglu, main opposition Republican People’s Party candidate for mayor of Istanbul, embraces a supporter in Istanbul, April 1. (Reuters)
Erdogan’s ‘milestone on the road to the end’
April 06, 2019
At boiling point. Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian man during clashes in Nablus. (Reuters)
Trump’s ‘new parameters’ for Middle East peace are recipe for disaster
March 30, 2019
Rough terrain. The aeroplane carrying US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prepares to land in the Lebanese capital Beirut, March 22. (AFP)
The Hezbollah conundrum
March 23, 2019
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party during a rally in Antalya, March 17. (AFP)
Turkish president is playing with fire
March 23, 2019
A Turkish journalist protests media repression outside a courthouse in Istanbul. (AP)
Erdogan’s attitude towards the media is out of this era
March 16, 2019
A diplomatic step. French President Emmanuel Macron (R) meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the UN headquarters on September 25, 2018. (AFP)
Iran should not send ambassadors and hit squads at the same time
March 11, 2019