Claude Salhani

Claude Salhani is a regular columnist for The Arab Weekly.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next to a Turkish soldier wearing an Ottoman uniform in Istanbul, last July. (AFP)
One more twist in Erdogan’s imperial mindset
January 18, 2020
In this file photo taken on September 12, 2019, a Turkish military convoy heads towards an observation point near the town of Maar Hitat in Syria's northern Idlib province. (AFP)
One more twist in Erdogan’s imperial mindset
January 16, 2020
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows the Islamic republic's President Hassan Rouhani chairing a cabinet meeting in Tehran on January 15. (AFP)
Iran's mullahs taking advantage of unexpected sacrificial lamb
January 15, 2020
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a televised interview in Istanbul, January 5. (Turkish Presidential Press Service via AP)
Erdogan opens a Pandora's box
January 07, 2020
Peaceful yet defiant. Anti-government protesters chant slogans as they hold clenched fists with an Arabic word that reads “Lebanon” during the New Year’s celebrations in Martyrs’ Square in Beirut, January 1. (AP)
Why the Lebanese revolution may yet work
January 04, 2020
An anti-government protester leads a chant as activists gather outside of the state-run electricity company in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. (AP)
Not the season to be merry in Tehran
December 21, 2019
The Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank on the outskirts of Jerusalem is pictured on November 26, 2019. (AFP)
New US Policy on West Bank Settlements buries two-state solution
December 15, 2019
One step forward, two steps back. US President Donald Trump (L) and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leave the stage to head to the plenary session at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, north-east of London, December 4. (AFP)
Erdogan’s gunboat politics is dangerous
December 14, 2019
The other way. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO leaders’ summit in Watford, Britain, December 4. (Reuters)
As NATO turns 70, Turkey darkens the alliance’s hope for a bright future
December 07, 2019
A bike-delivery food messenger stands next to another man as they both use smartphones along the side of a street in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 23, 2019. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Iranian leadership shows its true face
December 05, 2019
An Iranian pro-government protester reacts as she attends a demonstration in Tehran, Iran November 25. (Reuters)
Iran’s protest crackdown the latest in a long line of abuses
November 27, 2019
A Lebanese anti-government protester waves the national flag as she prepares to head to the south of Lebanon on a 'revolution' bus from central Beirut on November 16, 2019. (AFP)
The bright side to the Lebanese October revolution
November 17, 2019
Lebanese students take part in a protest in the southern city of Sidon, November 5. (AFP)
In Lebanon, going back to 'business as usual' might not be an alternative
November 09, 2019
A demonstrator holds an anti-U.S. placard during an annual rally outside the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, November 4. (AP)
Anniversary of Iran hostage crisis marks four decades of repression of dissent, hostility to the West
November 08, 2019
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri announces the resignation of his government Beirut, October 29. (Dalati and Nohra via AFP)
Despite Hariri’s resignation, the Lebanese revolt may still flutter and wither away
November 02, 2019
In this file photo taken on June 28, 2019 US President Donald Trump (R) attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Osaka. (AFP)
Trump’s moves will forever change the map of the Middle East
October 28, 2019
Lebanese riot policemen separates between anti-government protesters, left, and Hezbollah supporters, right during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, October 24. (AP)
'Switzerland of the Middle East' is on the brink of failure
October 25, 2019
An Iranian boy pulls a hand cart at the old main bazaar in Tehran. (AP)
Iranians suffer as Tehran’s appetite for regional power grows
October 19, 2019
An elderly man is evacuated from a building in Akcakale, a town near the Turkish border with Syria on October 13, 2019, after it was hit by a rocket reported to be fired from within Syria. (AFP)
The lessons of Trump's moves in Syria will not be forgotten
October 17, 2019
In this file photo taken on October 7, 2019 US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing of a US-Japanese trade agreement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP)
Trump's 'great and unmatched wisdom' is neither
October 09, 2019