Umarkarim
@Umarkarim89
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Researcher @unibirmingham. Fellow @ProjectSEPAD. Ass. Fellow @kfcris_en. Views my own. Working on Saudi Arabia/Middle East.
Birmingham, England
Joined August 2012
My latest article for @ConversationUK regarding the emerging power hierarchy in Saudi Royal family below the King and Crown Prince. “Has a new royal order in Saudi Arabia revealed the future line of succession?” via @ConversationUK.
theconversation.com
We may have taken a step towards knowing who the Saudi Kingdom’s third-most powerful person is.
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RT @SyroJaziran: Ibn Khaldun reports that Muslim and Jewish astrologers in the Maghrib and Castile interpreted the Great Conjunction of 136….
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RT @IhsanTipu: Experts elsewhere advocate for pure realism, advising respective Govts to prioritize national interest over emotional postur….
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Pakistan suspends road travel to Iran, Iraq citing security concerns. Interesting development as the Iranian President is set to visit Pakistan.
arabnews.com
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi announced on Sunday that the government will not allow pilgrims to travel to Iran and Iraq by road for the Arbaeen pilgrimage this year, citing
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Interesting timing of Modi’s call to a MBZ. Perhaps it appears that India may want to use Emirati channels to diffuse tensions with Trump admin.
UAE President, Indian Prime Minister discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation by phone. #WamNews .
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RT @BabakVahdad: Moscow And Tehran Working To Block US Involvement In Zangezur Corridor – Analysis.#Iran #Azerbaijan #Zangezurcorridor .htt….
eurasiareview.com
Baku and Yerevan are edging toward a peace agreement with progress on the issue of transit between Azerbaijan proper and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan. Azerbaijan hopes to gain access to...
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RT @HeshamAlghannam: لا لحظة سادات لمحمد بن سلمان.تحدثت اليوم صباحا التاسعة بتوقيت #السعودية مع أعرق محطات الراديو الدولية الخدمة العالمية….
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RT @AzizAlghashian: One of the #Saudi outlets with the heading: “no relations with #Israel before the establishment of a #Palestinian state….
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RT @CFTNI: TOMORROW | With Israel ascendant and the conflict in Gaza dragging on, how interested are Gulf Arab states in making common caus….
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RT @SushantSin: Delhi’s calculation is evident: Accommodating Beijing now costs less than betting on Washington’s assured support. This shi….
foreignpolicy.com
Without clear U.S. support, the cost of resisting Beijing is too high.
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RT @OrientXXI: La disparition de Rabi Al-Madkhali, figure éminente du salafisme, offre matière à réflexion sur les recompositions du sunnis….
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RT @CFTNI: TUESDAY | With Israel ascendant and the conflict in Gaza dragging on, how interested are Gulf Arab states in making common cause….
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RT @gbrew24: WSJ has some specific figures on how US/Israeli interceptors performed against Iran. Upshot: if the war had continued, Israel….
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RT @foleyse: See my @GulfStatesInstpiece on #Saudicreative Ammar Alsabban. He has excelled as a puppeteer, starred on an Arabic version of….
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RT @ezzingaza: We no longer have the strength to die for someone else’s ambitions. And that, perhaps, is our last act of dignity. To die fo….
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RT @esoubrier: Author copies arriving soon! Can’t wait to hold “Qatar and the UAE: Diverging Paths to Global and Regional Power” in my hand….
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RT @LancasterPress: Professor Simon Mabon from @pprlancaster writes in the Conversation on how “Gaza is starving – how Israel's allies can….
theconversation.com
Israel’s allies should look at what was done to isolate South Africa during the apartheid years.
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RT @JeremyKonyndyk: As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the….
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