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tunisia

A Tunisian protester lifts a flag confined in a birdcage during an anti-government demonstration on the Habib Bourguiba avenue in the capital Tunis, on January 19, 2021. (AFP)

There is still hope for Tunisia

Khairallah Khairallah

Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said

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

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Opinion

Houthi ballistic missiles on display during an exhibition of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles an at undisclosed location in Yemen. (AFP)

Iran’s missile programme and US-Israeli agendas

Khairallah Khairallah

Iran

© Yasser Ahmed for The Arab Weekly

Iran's parallel worlds

Syria

A US Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) patrols near the village of Tal Alo, in the Yarubiyah district of Syria’s north-eastern Hasakah province near the M4 highway, last November. (AFP)

Biden’s options in Syria

Opinion

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths (L) visits the Aden Airport in southern Yemen January 7, 2021. (AFP)

The path to peace in Yemen is not strewn with roses

Opinion

Iraqi police keep watch during a demonstration at Tahrir Square in Baghdad on December 21, 2020. (AFP)

Free and fair early elections are Iraq’s last chance

Ibrahim Zobeidi

Opinion

An Iraqi street vendor displays clothes next to graffiti in Arabic that reads, “Baghdad is free and Iran out,” in Tahrir Square, Baghdad. (AP)

Will 2021 usher in the end of Iraq as we know it?

Majid al-Samarrai-53721

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