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News in-depthSudan
Risk of regional powers picking sides raises stakes in battle for Sudan
...“They don’t want to see an outside military presence in what they see as their backyard,” Wahid Hanna said....
April 19, 2023
News in-depthFIFA Men's World Cup
Qatar World Cup provides rare source of unity to Arab states
...For years, more liberal Gulf societies such as Dubai have adopted a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to homosexuality....
November 28, 2022
FT Live
Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia
Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability
Tuesday, 30 JulyMandala Club, 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore 089845
JD Sports Fashion PLC
JD Sports’s choice of CEO signals a clear break with the recent past
...“He came into the company when it wasn’t in great shape,” said one person who worked with him at the time and described him as “demanding and quite direct” but effective....
August 5, 2022
The Big Read
The new oil war: Opec moves against the US
...“We can’t be siding with this country or that country.”...
October 7, 2022
FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: the most rewarding runs in the world
The fast and the curious: the rise of the running club
...Abdulla Alhajri, a postdoctoral researcher, moved from Boston to London during the pandemic. He signed up to Friendly as a way to meet new people after discovering the club on Instagram....
January 6, 2022
News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
Houthi attack tests UAE effort to ease tensions with Iran
...“The optics aren’t good for the Iranians considering that, so it’s going to be interesting to see what the Iranians signal, both publicly and through diplomatic channels,” said a person briefed on the UAE...
January 19, 2022
FT Live
Outstanding Directors Exchange
Fostering trust for steadfast leadership
Wednesday, 12 JuneHarvard Club of New York City, West 44th Street, New York, NY, USA
News in-depthMiddle Eastern politics & society
Bankrupt Lebanon left to rue criticism of Saudi Arabia
...For the insulted Gulf, “this is an absolute, irreversible rupture”, said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, an Emirati professor of political science....
November 7, 2021
Tunisia
Tunisia thrown into turmoil as president sacks prime minister
...There is no hope, you can’t work, can’t marry.” Speculation was rife about foreign or military involvement in Tunisian politics, in part because the president has no independent power base....
July 26, 2021
News in-depthOpec
Opec impasse sees UAE ‘flexing its muscles’ against Saudi Arabia
...“We can’t make a new agreement under the same conditions — we have a sovereign right to negotiate that.”...
July 4, 2021
The Big Read
‘More of China, less of America’: how superpower fight is squeezing the Gulf
...“There’s a trust deficit with America which is growing by the day,” says Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, an Emirati professor of politics....
September 20, 2021
News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
Conflict rattles Israeli rapprochement with Arab states
...“The absence of protests isn’t an absence of the desire to protest but an absence of permission to protest.”...
May 16, 2021
Middle Eastern politics & society
Riyadh holds talks with Houthis in effort to break Yemen deadlock
...“If the Yemen war hadn’t existed, Iran wouldn’t have been able to distract away from its responsibility for the attacks,” the diplomat said....
October 11, 2019
Middle Eastern politics & society
Dubai raises a glass to social changes in the Gulf
...“Naturally, there are few religious and conservative segments in UAE society who are against these changes,” said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, an Emirati professor of political science....
November 27, 2020
Travel
The destinations pulling out the stops to restart tourism
...“We cannot miss this opportunity — and as minister of tourism I won’t,” said Farkash-Hacohen....
April 30, 2021
News in-depthThe Big Read
UAE vs Turkey: regional rivalries pit MBZ against Erdogan
...It accelerated the deal,” says Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, an Emirati academic who often reflects the state’s thinking....
October 26, 2020
FT Live
Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific
Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region
Thursday, 16 MayHong Kong
Belt and Road Initiative
Maldives seeks to renegotiate with China over Belt and Road debt
...“But we cannot — and no one should expect us to — pay back anything that hasn’t come.” Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing...
January 31, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
US and Middle East: strongmen contemplate post-Trump era
...But it didn’t happen. That’s why Trump was so welcome in the region — that’s how it all started.”...
September 20, 2020
Indian politics & policy
India’s youth voice anger at Modi’s citizenship law
...“We don’t want to live in a country where we aren’t equals.”...
December 20, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
Donald Trump’s whims stoke fears of instability in the Middle East
...“We think we have time and they [Iran] don’t [because of the economic pressures].”...
November 3, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
The Maldives counts the cost of its debts to China
...Opened last year, the bridge was the flagship project in a surge of Chinese investment into the Maldives under former president Abdulla Yameen, who left office in November after a shock election defeat brought...
February 11, 2019
The Art Market
Why Victoria Beckham is exhibiting 20th-century Italian art
...A heart-wrenching work by Behjat Omer Abdulla, also a Kurdish refugee, was unwittingly made at the same time as his partner lost 11 family members off the Greek island of Samos in 2016....
July 4, 2019
News in-depthIran
Donald Trump’s Iran policy confuses both allies and foes
...Trump had all the evidence, but all of a sudden he backs down,” said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, an Emirati commentator....
June 24, 2019
Belt and Road Initiative
Advantage India in struggle with China over Maldives
...This week, 234,000 voters in the tiny island nation played a key role in this new Great Game, taking part in an election that ousted Abdulla Yameen, their autocratic president who had become hostile to India...
September 28, 2018
Work & Careers
Sultan Al Jaber: changing the mindset of a 50-year-old institution
...Abdulla Nasser Al Suwaidi, who had been running the company since 2011, had been working on an agenda for reform....
March 3, 2019
Asia and Australia holidays
The far side of Paradise: a Maldives atoll facing up to climate disaster
...Nasheed was ousted in 2012 and later imprisoned by his successor Abdulla Yameen....
August 2, 2019

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