On 9 April 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied began a three-day official visit to Egypt, his first since he took office in October 2019. During the visit, he met, alongside his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a number of Egyptian officials and Islamic and Christian spiritual leaders. The visit came within a changing regional and internal context for Egypt and Tunisia alike.
Ahmed Nadhif | 12 Apr 2021
Iran’s pursuit of regional hegemony has come to represent an increasingly complicated and intractable dilemma for the Middle East. Iran has neither succeeded in its aims, nor abandoned this destructive strategy; for four decades it has threatened the security and stability of the region, and the Gulf in particular, creating an impasse that now extends beyond the Middle East to affect global interests.
Dr. Ebtesam al-Ketbi | 31 Mar 2021
The Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi's initiative for national dialogue, which he launched on 8 March 2021, came as an attempt to benefit from the positive atmosphere left in the country by the visit of the Pope of the Vatican, and to pave the ground for the general elections scheduled for October 2021. However, the initiative raised a clear difference in the reactions of the various Iraqi actors.
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The global economy was hit by higher uncertainty as global production has dropped by 4.5%, global labor income is estimated to h...
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Despite burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economic system and heavy pressure on the structures of national economies all over the worl...
EPC | 14 Feb 2021
The global health care systems were full of gaps that were not evident before. We have realized the limitation of the capability of our health syst...
The world has seen health crises in the past. The impact of these crises, however, was not like the COVID-19 impact. The health care systems in the...
I think that the process of political transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration will take some time (maybe 6 months). Th...
The tendency is to see a lot more continuity in the American approach towards the Middle East in terms of relations and style, despite significant...
The Biden administration will be dealing with an evolving Middle East that is different from the one that both administrations of Obama and Trump h...
EPC | 20 Dec 2020
We can argue that most world countries are happy for electing Joe Biden as US President. The four years of President Donald Trump’s era were...
First of all, we cannot ignore that the US is internally divided and suffers from an internal crisis. Dealing with this crisis poses a challenge to...
U.S elections proved that a large segment (47%) of American people is not satisfied with Washington’s policies and economic performance. Pres...
EPC | 14 Sep 2020
The Turkish government lacked transparency in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. The number of cases announced by Ankara was not accurate and lacked...
Turkey’s economy was strongly hit by the Coronavirus crisis particularly in trade, services, transport and tourism sectors. For example, the...
The toughest thing facing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now is economic recession. It is likely that this recession will last for a long t...
EPC | 06 Sep 2020
The Emirati-Israeli peace treaty was dubbed as a “historical moment” or a “historical breakthrough” because it is the first...
The Emirati-Israeli Peace Treaty came in the context of the geopolitical shifts in the Middle East since the 2000s. These shifts have shown the nee...
The treaty reflects a new spirit in the UAE leadership based on the fact that we, as Arabs, can bring about a change to the current path in the reg...
EPC | 17 Aug 2020
There are several motives for the issuance by the US of the Caesar Act, mainly sending a message to the allies of the Syrian regime that they will...
From the political perspective, the Caesar Act constitutes one of the US foreign policy tools to influence the Syrian crisis and impose its conditi...
Even before the Caesar Act was passed, Syria had reached the point of chaos and collapse due to the deterioration of the economic and living condit...
EPC | 11 Aug 2020
There is no doubt that at the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic crisis, the Iranian regime took wrong decisions, such as insisting on holding t...
The health crisis in Iran has exacerbated as a result of the government’s delay in taking the necessary measures to combat the spread of the...
During the period of the current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran has shifted from a revolutionary regime to a police state. In the event of Khame...
EPC | 20 Feb 2020
What President Trump is doing is different from former US presidents; he is putting more pressure on Palestinians to accept his vision for a soluti...
We can say that three people in the Trump Administration were responsible for drafting the “Deal of the Century” in its current form in...
In my estimation, the “Deal of the Century” has nothing to do with the priorities of the current U.S administration and it’s an i...
EPC | 05 Nov 2019
Addis Ababa thinks that the Renaissance Dam is a project of economic integration that will benefit the whole region, not only Ethiopia. Despite dif...
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Washington’s call for a meeting between the three parties to the dam crisis in 6 November 2019, came to revive the hopes for reaching an unde...
Iran Strategic Report is designed to provide an impartial and objective reading of the situation in Iran. The importance of this strategic report stems from the political, geographic and social importance of Iran and the impact of its ideological orientations and alliances on regional policies, security and stability in the Gulf region and broader Middle East. Particular importance is attached to the 2020 report given its contribution to the understanding of Iran’s question and drivers of Tehran’s behavior in this potentially decisive year in the life of the Iranian revolution amidst the preparations of the forthcoming presidential elections in June 2021, which will also be pivotal for reasons the reader will find out as she/he reads the report.
The United Arab Emirates represents an ideal case to study of a small state’s effective response to strategic challenges and contemporary shifts in the Middle East. Regional and international geopolitical developments in the region since the dawn of the twenty-first century have forced radical changes in UAE foreign policy and power-building.
Dr. Ebtesam al-Ketbi | 22 Mar 2021
Over the past four decades, the issue of relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have dominated the Iranian political arena. Such is the extent of this preoccupation with America, that some argue it is more influential than all other objective and subjective factors in the politics and economics of the region.
Dr. Ebtesam Al Ketbi | 24 Feb 2021
Abu Dhabi, April 12, 2021 -- President of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, on Monday received a delegation from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) that included Ambassador Dore Gold, President of JCPA and Dr. Shimon Shapira, an expert at the center.
EPC | 13 Apr 2021
Abu Dhabi, March 23, 2021 – Dr. Ebtesam al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), on Tuesday received Robin Diane Solomon, Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi and Jack Doutrich, Political Counselor at the Embassy.
EPC | 24 Mar 2021
Abu Dhabi, March 22, 2021 – Dr. Ebtesam al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), and CEO of TRENDS Research and Advisory Dr. Mohamed Abdullah Al Ali, on Monday signed a memorandum of cooperation at EPC’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
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