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    James M. Dorsey

    James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, a syndicated columnist and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer. A veteran, award-winning foreign correspondent whose career focused on ethnic and religious conflict, James focuses at RSIS on political and social change in the Middle East and North Africa, the impact of change in the Middle East and North Africa on Southeast and Central Asia and the nexus of sports, politics and society in the Middle East and North Africa and Asia.

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  • The Saudi Export of Ultra-conservatism in the Era of MbS – an Update0

    • Commentary
    • April 18, 2018

      by James M. Dorsey        18/4/2018 Edited remarks at The Middle East and the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University and the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC 18-19 April 2018 There has long been the debate about the

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  • Turning Qatar into an Island: Saudi cuts off its nose to spite its face0

    • Commentary
    • April 13, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey  13/4/2018 There’s a cutting-off-the-nose-to-spite-the face aspect to a Saudi plan to turn Qatar into an island by digging a 60-kilometre ocean channel through the two countries’ land border that would accommodate a nuclear waste heap as well as a military base. If implemented, the channel would signal the kingdom’s belief that

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  • The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the Politics of Middle Eastern Soccer0

    • Commentary
    • April 12, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey     12/4/2018   Edited remarks at The Beautiful Game? Identity, Resentment, and Discrimination in Football and Fan Cultures conference, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin, 12-13 April 2018 The virtually continuous role of soccer as a key player in the history and development of the Middle East and North Africa dating

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  • Remembering Syria: Iran struggles with potentially explosive environmental crisis0

    • Commentary
    • April 8, 2018

      By James M. Dorsey     8.4.2018 Iranian leaders are struggling, three months after anti-government protests swept the Islamic republic, to ensure that environmental issues that helped sparked a popular uprising in Syria in 2011 leading to a brutal civil war don’t threaten the clergy’s grip on power. Like Syria, Iran has been confronting a

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  • Moderating Islam: Saudi Prince Mohammed walks on shaky ground0

    • Commentary
    • April 5, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey       5/4/2018 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has dazzled international media and public opinion by lifting some restrictions on women’s rights, holding out hope for the abolishment of others, and a vow to return the kingdom to a vague form of moderate Islam that many believe is defined by

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  • China Moves To Counter Violent And Non-Violent Expressions Of Uighur Identity0

    • Commentary
    • April 4, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey    3/4/2018 China is moving on multiple fronts to pre-empt in the short-term Uighur foreign fighters fleeing Syria and Iraq from reasserting themselves in Central Asia and longer term prevent the emergence of an ever more vocal Diaspora like what Tibetans have achieved. The multi-pronged Chinese approach involves weaving Afghanistan more

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  • Anticipated harder US policy towards Iran magnifies Iranian Arab protest0

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    • March 31, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey     31/3/2018 Protests have erupted in Iran’s oil-rich province of Khuzestan barely three months after the Islamic republic was rocked by mass anti-government demonstrations. Sparked by anger at the depiction of the province’s community of Arab descent on an Iranian New Year show about the country’s diversity that was broadcast on

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  • Will the real Pakistan stand up, please?0

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    • March 29, 2018

      By James M. Dorsey       29/3/2018 Two headlines this month beg the question US officials have been grappling with for more than a decade: Will the real Pakistan stand up, please? Pakistan’s The News reported that the government had designated Islamabad as a pilot project to regulate Friday prayer sermons in the city’s

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  • Natural gas: An underrated driver of Saudi hostility towards Iran and Qatar0

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    • March 27, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey       27/3/2018 Debilitating hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran is about lots of things, not least who will have the upper hand in a swath of land stretching from Central Asia to the Atlantic coast of Africa. While attention is focused on ensuring that continued containment of Iran ensures that

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  • Saudi Prince Mohammed’s Religious Moderation Unlikely To Change Asian Realities0

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    • March 24, 2018

     March 24, 2018 James M. Dorsey   Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may be seeking to revert his kingdom to an unspecified form of moderate Islam but erasing the impact of 40 years of global funding of ultra-conservative, intolerant strands of the faith is unlikely to be eradicated by decree. Not only because ultra-conservatism has taken root in

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  • Saudi moderation: How far will Crown Prince Mohammed go?0

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    • March 21, 2018

      By James M. Dorsey       21/3/2018 In his effort to improve Saudi Arabia’s badly tarnished image and project the kingdom as embracing an unidentified form of moderate Islam, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has hinted that he envisions a conservative rather than an ultra-conservative society, but not one in which citizens are

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  • Pakistan struggles to get a grip on militancy and ultra-conservatism2

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    • March 10, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey         10/3/2018 Seventy years after its birth, Pakistan is struggling to get a grip on Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism and its militant offshoots that were aided and abetted by successive governments as well as Saudi Arabia and at times the United States. The stakes for Pakistan are high as it

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  • Smoking and drinking: Churchill sets an example today’s Western leaders can learn from0

    • Commentary
    • March 9, 2018

    By James M. Dorsey      9/3/2018 To understand that Western emphasis on human rights is at best a fig leaf to do business with autocrats whose rule is based on repression, contrast Winston Churchill’s encounter with Mohammed bin Salman’s grandfather, King Abdulaziz, with British prime minister Theresa May’s recent talks with the crown prince.

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  • International soccer bodies ignore blatant rule violations in run-up to Egyptian election0

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    • March 7, 2018

      By James M. Dorsey    7//3/2018 International soccer bodies, in violation of their own bylaws, have ignored the blatant mixing of sports and politics in advance of this month’s Egyptian presidential elections that general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi is set to win after ensuring that no credible candidate would challenge him. Despite recently warning

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