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Britain snatched away Buraimi from Saudi Arabia by manipulating arbitration and misleading locals

With the Middle East in a state of confusion after a spate of uprisings, T.E. Lawrence’s insights of the region could still come in handy

Lebanon became the battleground for Syria and Israel as hashish trade tore the state apart

The success of the sultanate’s diplomacy over the past few decades is rooted in its long history of cosmopolitanism

The great military mind of George C. Marshall was at work as he picked his commanders

A professor looks for reasons behind the gulf between the two cultures, among his students

Qatar hasn’t settled for prosperity and its ambitions for global influence are all too evident. Geography, though, is holding it hostage

Doha’s ‘subtle power’ derives from its financial might, Al Jazeera, and its recent forays into regional politics

How the different communities sought help from neighbouring nations to destroy their homeland

Osama Bin Laden used as a prism to separate the many layers of discord that are often generalised, wrongly, as anti-Americanism

Why autocratic continuity, not wide-ranging political change, will remain the hallmark of the so-called Arab Spring

The stance US policymakers should adopt to this battle for supremacy in the Middle East