On a Tuesday evening in Cairo, the screens were on fire. A crowded downtown café was glued to the Liverpool–Real Madrid match, eyes tracking every touch by Mohamed Salah – the young man who ...

Except for the Wadi Gaza – which today is little more than a polluted water basin – no real river runs through the Gaza Strip. Even that Wadi barely reaches the sea. Its flow is choked off by ...

Fourteen years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s frozen assets remain buried under layers of sanctions, bureaucracy, and mistrust, even as ordinary Libyans still lack the most basic ...

The peace plan isn’t keeping up with reality on the ground. Ezzedine C. Fishere is an Egyptian-American novelist, academic, and former diplomat who teaches at Dartmouth College. His most recent ...

Gulf countries are entering a new phase of monetary transformation, with digital currency markets witnessing an unprecedented boom. These nations have already made significant strides, positioning ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Iran’s neighbor Iraq goes to the polls, the dams dry up outside Tehran, bread prices spike and why you might soon find yourself within range of an Iranian ...

Joe Kawly is the host of MBN’s podcast The Diplomat, covering the global contest for power and influence.  Artificial Intelligence will steal your judgment before it takes your job. The world’s ...

Colleagues, MBN keeps chipping away, most recently hard at work on: “Disarming Hamas” (Yehia), “Hezbollah’s Schools of Hate ...

When Chinese President Xi Jinping was received in Riyadh in 2022 with an honor guard and desert fireworks, many in Washington saw a symbolic shift. But for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ...

In a sign of the deepening strain between Hezbollah and Lebanon’s state institutions, the group’s deputy secretary general, Naim Qassem, on Oct. 21 accused the central-bank governor and the ...

Washington is hosting talks between the Sudanese government and the U.S. administration to explore ways to end the war and outline the contours of a new “road map” that the United States could ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. Today we travel from a national banking disaster to the Israel-friendly northern neighbor that increasingly worries Tehran to Latin America to see how the ...