Haitham El-Zobaidi

Dr Haitham El-Zobaidi is the executive editor of Al Arab Group.

Author Articles

Dancers in traditional Egyptian costumes participate in The International Festival for Drums and Traditional Arts in El-Moez street in historical Fatimid Cairo, Egypt. (AFP)
Keep the lights on for Arab cultural capitals
April 09, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman attend the official welcome ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 14, 2019. (REUTERS)
The Russians are coming to the Gulf
March 16, 2021
Demonstrators wave a large Turkish flag as they take part in a rally in Martyrs’ Square in the capital Tripoli on January 10, 2020. (AFP)
Language and race are precious tools in Erdogan’s imperial project
March 03, 2021
An Emirati walks past a screen displaying the “Hope” Mars probe at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai on July 19, 2020. (AFP)
The Middle East edition of ‘Star Wars’ takes shape
February 24, 2021
State Department spokesman Ned Price (L) listens as US special envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking speaks via teleconference during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, DC on February 16, 2021. (AFP)
The return of high commissioners an early sign of Biden’s hubris
February 24, 2021
US President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy at the State Department in Washington, on February 4, 2021. Behind him is US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (AFP)
It is lobbying time in Washington
February 17, 2021
United Arab Emirates Air Force Desert Falcons fly in formation with US F-35A Lightning IIs in an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. (AP)
F-35 is more than just a US arms deal for the UAE
February 03, 2021
Omani sultan Haitham hosts a dinner on Armed Forced Day, Muscat, Oman, January 11, 2020. (ONA)
Sultan Haitham introduces major changes in defence, security establishement
January 26, 2021
Oman’s ruler Sultan Haitham bin Tariq presides over a cabinet meeting at al-Baraka palace in the capital Muscat, Oman., Jany. 11, 2021. (Oman news agency)
Oman’s balanced perspective on regulating succession
January 19, 2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives an honorary degree from Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi on May 1, 2017. (AFP)
The funny, sad history of intellectual pandering
November 25, 2020
Eliahu Ibrahim Jury. (Archives)
Remembering Eliahu Jury and the fragrances we lost
November 06, 2020
Kuwaiti traders wearing protective masks follow the market at the Boursa Kuwait stock exchange in Kuwait City. (AFP)
Gulf countries need comprehensive solution to meet pressures
September 29, 2020
Former Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah (center R) receives US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at al-Alam Palace, last February in Muscat. (AP)
Oman has no complex with Israel, its complex lies with Iran
September 16, 2020
Seven-year-old Syrian girl carriers her 8-month-old sister in the bombed Douma neighbourhood in May 2015. (Reuters)
We have to learn to live with the threat of the virus
April 04, 2020
A young Palestinian shepherd leads his flock in front of Israel's controversial separation barrier near Shufat refugee camp and the settlement of Pisgat Zeev (background), in east Jerusalem on January 15, 2016. (AFP)
The ‘Shu’fat Force’
February 01, 2020
President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, September 24. (AP)
The rise of populism
October 12, 2019
Yemeni demonstrators wave flags of former South Yemen as they march in Yemen’s second city of Aden, August 15. (AFP)
The Southern Transitional Council has not just parachuted into the Yemeni crisis
August 17, 2019
Iraq’s President Barham Salih speaks during an interview. (AP)
Iraqi president says Iraq is no country ‘for settling scores’
April 06, 2019
Iraqi President Barham Salih (L) during an interview with Dr Haitham El-Zobaidi at the Movenpick Hotel du Lac in Tunis. (Al Arab)
Barham Salih: ‘The power of the state is measured by strength of its institutions’
April 06, 2019
South Korean President Moon Jae-in (R) shakes hands with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during a meeting in Seoul, February 27. (AFP)
UAE oil storage facility likely game changer in Gulf-Iran showdown
March 02, 2019