Tag: Near and Middle East
Burning of a Koran: this affair which poisons Sweden’s membership in NATO
“It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back”, for the Turkish pro-government daily Sabah. On January 21, Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish right-wing extremist, who has a habit of insulting Muslims,…
Repression, religion and subsidies: Erdogan’s plan to win the presidential election
The countdown has begun for the most important election of 2023. During a speech last Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan released the fateful date of the presidential election in Turkey: it…
Gay, Sephardi and conservative: in Israel, a speaker of Parliament who clashes
In Jerusalem, on December 29, Israeli democracy is swimming in the midst of a paradox. At the end of the morning, thousands of LGBT activists demonstrate in front of the…
NATO: Turkey and Hungary, two “black sheep” which exasperate the Allies
All smiles, Jens Stoltenberg could hardly seem more optimistic than last July. At the time, the Secretary General of NATO boasted of the rebirth of the Atlantic Alliance in the…
Dubai: how the city-state is trying to restore its image
“One day, my jacket slipped from my bag. Two hours later, I returned to the place where I thought I had lost it. A passer-by had folded it up and…
Syria: how Bashar El-Assad is preparing his comeback on a field of ruins and corpses
Step by step, in the still smoking ruins of Syria, Bashar El-Assad traces his path, without worrying about the corpses on the side. After twelve years of war, more than…
Ukraine or Russia: why Israel does not want to choose
For 18 months, and for the first time in 12 years, Binyamin Netanyahu was no longer Prime Minister of Israel from June 2021 to December 2022. A short time like…
Israel-Palestine: the risk of a third intifada goes up a notch
Palestinians in Hebron have known Itamar Ben-Gvir for a long time. The new strongman of the Israeli government, a supremacist appointed Minister of National Security, began his career and forged…
Israel: why this Netanyahu government is the most right-wing in the country’s history
The newly re-elected Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, presented his new government coalition to the Knesset on Thursday, December 29, after two months of negotiations. Composed of six parties,…
In Saudi Arabia, with French archaeologists in search of the country’s memory
A lush oasis amidst a Grand Canyon landscape. At the beginning of December, temperatures were close to 30°C under the sun of AlUla, in the western Saudi desert, but this…