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Nov 15, 2020, 3:02 PM

Iran’s governments-in-waiting

October 31, 2020 marked the 60th birthday of the man born to be Shah of Iran and who, for the first nineteen years of his life, was the heir apparent ‒ Reza Pahlavi. When his father, faced by an...

Nov 10, 2020, 12:37 PM

Israel in the post-Brexit world of CANZUK

It did not take long for “Brexit”, a portmanteau term invented in 2012, to become common usage the world over. Since then a new expression has been bidding for its place in the sun – CANZUK. CANZUK is an acronym...

Nov 5, 2020, 2:40 PM

Why are big powers so interested in a small local conflict?

No one could call Nagorno-Karabakh the centre of the civilized world. It is a small chunk of land in a remote region in the southern Caucuses, flanked on one side by Armenia and on the other by Azerbaijan. Both,...

Oct 29, 2020, 5:06 PM

Why Lebanon needs its revolution

On October 27, 2020, a year after former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri was dismissed from office, he was reappointed by President Michel Aoun. Despite Hariri’s previous inability to manage Lebanon’s growing economic and political chaos, he has one...

Oct 23, 2020, 12:38 PM

Multi-national cooperation in the Middle East

Hope is flourishing in the Middle East. Many believe that the historic normalization deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will broaden into increased cooperation across the whole region, leading to growing prosperity. If this is...

Oct 11, 2020, 6:39 PM

Why the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict matters

Few conflicts in what may loosely be termed the Middle East have managed to remain self-contained ‒ certainly none of those currently being played out. The participants in each dispute in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq have attracted the...

Oct 4, 2020, 1:00 PM

Time for three yesses

Shortly after Israel had routed the combined military forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War in June 1967, eight Arab heads of state ‒ kings, emirs and presidents ‒ attended a summit conference in Khartoum, Sudan’s...

Sep 27, 2020, 8:42 AM

Jerusalem and the embassy issue

When politicians say of any problem that their position is “clear,” you can be pretty certain that it is anything but. Clarity on the issue of Jerusalem, its status and its future, has been claimed recently by both the...

Sep 18, 2020, 10:05 AM

Who is betraying whom?

Twice in the past few days Palestinian leaders have charged fellow Arab states with treachery. The accusation was taken up and repeated by the two non-Arab states that proclaim themselves Israel’s great enemies, Iran and Turkey, and was echoed...

Sep 12, 2020, 12:42 AM

Pity the Palestinian people

It is becoming increasingly obvious to the world at large that a peaceful, productive. flourishing Middle East is not only possible, but within grasp. Steps are being taken, plans are being made, to achieve a bright new future for...

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About Me

Born in London and educated at Oxford University, Neville Teller has worked in advertising, management, the media and the Civil Service, and has written about the Middle East for more than 30 years. He has also written consistently for BBC radio, and in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2006 was awarded an MBE "for services to broadcasting and to drama.” He made aliyah in 2011.