Claude Salhani

Claude Salhani is a regular columnist for The Arab Weekly.

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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
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz (C) visits wounded soldiers at the Riyadh Military Hospital, on November 5. (SPA)
Reality trumps the US in Saudi Arabia
November 10, 2018
A 2016 file picture shows demonstrators shouting slogans during a protest against the arrest of prominent journalists in central Istanbul. (Reuters)
Erdogan’s face-off with the ‘enemies of the people’
November 10, 2018
Protesters in central London shout slogans and hold placards during a demonstration in support of Palestinians, last April 7. (AFP)
Palestinians face risk of being forgotten
November 03, 2018
A widening chasm. A 2017 file picture shows Iranian President Hassan Rohani (R) and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini before their meeting in Tehran. (AP)
Iran’s dangerous war in the shadows
November 03, 2018
In this October 6, 2017 photo, boats sail on the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)
Will the next Middle East war be about water?
November 02, 2018
A Palestinian woman holds a baby as she walks past the entrance to an UNRWA health centre in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. (Reuters)
Trump’s three strikes against Palestinians
October 27, 2018
A woman walks past a beggar in Tehran. (AFP)
The Iranian paradox is unravelling
October 20, 2018
A man tries to open the door of the Nizam-i Alem mosque in Vienna's 10th district after it was closed by the Austrian authorities, last June. (AFP)
Austria ignores Iranian threats to its sovereignty
October 16, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) gives a speech at the 17th Francophone countries summit in Yerevan, on October 11. (AFP)
Does Francophonie matter for the Arab world?
October 13, 2018
Signs of resilience. Supporters of Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), attend a rally in Villepinte near Paris, on June 30. (Reuters)
Iran’s terror plot in Paris raises many questions
October 06, 2018
A member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps pours water on the head of a victim’s relative in Ahvaz, on September 24. (AFP)
Iran is conflating rhetoric with reality
September 29, 2018
A security guard enters the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office two days after President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton announced that the State Department would close the PLO office in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2018. (Reuters)
Trump closing PLO office in Washington invites Palestinian extremism
September 26, 2018
Little leverage. US President Donald Trump (R) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, on August 16. (Reuters)
Handling of Syria tragedy shows US foreign policy is broken
September 21, 2018
Fealing the heat. People walk in front of a currency exchange shop in Tehran. (AFP)
US sanctions affecting Iran from nukes to nappies
September 21, 2018