By Supriya Shekhar
Tag: Middle East
A Fractured Past. A Fearful Future.
By Lucy Wright
The World This Week
Our editors give us a breakdown of this week’s current affairs
An Economic Flashpoint: How did Lebanon get here?
By Dhruv Shah
Breaking Point
By Lucy Wright
The World This Week
Our editors give us a breakdown of this week’s biggest news stories
The World This Week
Our editors give us the breakdown of this week’s biggest news stories
Yemen: A Civil War Forgotten
By Ruaraidh Maciver Editor-in-Chief, History Student Throughout the last two years, the majority of journalistic pieces emerging from the Middle East have been primarily addressing the continuing conflict in Syria. The seemingly endless and desperate situation facing the country becoming ever more complicated as the world watches on without answer. You could be forgiven then,…
Xi Jinping’s Visit in the Middle East: All for Business?
By Yifan Xia Correspondent, International Relations Undergraduate Chinese President Xi Jinping, the busiest state leader of the world in terms of diplomatic visits in 2015, started 2016 with a five-day visit to the Middle East in late January, including key countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran. It has been six years since the last…
For the Refugees: “England good, Norway good, Canada good, America good”
By Tom Mcelholm Correspondent, History Undergraduate Student I stood monitoring the line for clothes distribution in Calais’ Refugee Camp during the emergency week in mid-January. The CRS had announced the impending demolition of a portion of the Kurdish section of the camp. Days after journalists left they would enter the camp in APCs, teargas it…
Rising Youth: The Problem of Un- and Underemployment in the Middle East and North Africa
By Sarah Bliss Correspondent, Arabic and Economics Undergraduate Student Though many in the West see only the shining skyscrapers of Dubai and the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, the economic situation in much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is characterised by a number of structural concerns, including the chronically high rate of…
The St Andrews Economist 