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What’s Love Got to Do With It? Building a Different Middle East
Gilles Kepel discusses the recent developments in the Middle East that could reshape the global order.
Over the last several months, there have been a series of extraordinary developments in the Middle East that could have almost as big an impact on the shape of the new global order as Russia’s war on Ukraine. Consider even a partial list:
China's engineering of rapprochement between supposedly implacable enemies Iran and Saudi Arabia;
The Arab League celebrating the return of Syria's president Assad, still considered a war criminal in the West;
Saudi Arabia's application to join the Shanghai…
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