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.
By James M. Dorsey Increasingly caught up in the Middle East’s multiple conflicts, Pakistan.......
By James M. Dorsey A leaked long-term plan for China’s massive $56 billion investment.......
By James M. Dorsey Two conferences this week spotlight the Muslim world’s struggle to come.......
By James M. Dorsey Cracks have appeared in a Saudi-led, US-backed anti-terrorist political and military.......
By James M. Dorsey The Trump administration this week appeared to take a potential step.......
By James M. Dorsey A Saudi and UAE-driven campaign to isolate Qatar and by extension.......
By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, by breaking off not.......
By James M. Dorsey Turkey’s parliament is this week fast tracking the dispatch of up.......
Terrorist killings at Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini bring into focus something.......
By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia and the UAE appear to be contemplating engineering a.......
By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia, in a first move to pressure mostly Muslim.......
By James M. Dorsey A two-week old conflict in the Gulf goes to the core.......
Semaan Khawam: Thawrat / Source Middle East Institute, NUS By James M. Dorsey Two.......
Source: Debka By James M. Dorsey A list of 13 conditions for lifting the Saudi-UAE.......
By James M. Dorsey International soccer governance is tying itself up in knots with football.......
By James M. Dorsey A three-week-old, Saudi-UAE-led diplomatic and economic boycott of Qatar threatens to.......
By James M. Dorsey Vulnerable Asian states are bracing for possible pressure to back a.......
By James M. Dorsey The Gulf crisis that pits Saudi Arabia and the UAE against.......
By James M. Dorsey A Qatari refusal to bow to the dictate of.......
By James M. Dorsey A report charging Saudi Arabia with funding extremism in Britain puts.......
