Journalist, Writer, Analyst

Latest Work

For Washington Report on the Middle East on Cyprus’ ghost city

For Asia Times on Turkey’s economic woes

For Welt Sichten on Southeast Asia and growing US/China competition

For Asia Times on Saudi-Iranian rapprochement

 

For Asia Times on potential Afghan fall-out in Iraq 

 

 

For Foreign Policy on Greece’s new diplomatic activism in MENA and the Eastern Med

 

For Asia Times on Iran’s assistance to Hamas in developing its rocket and missile strategy

 

For Foreign Policy on the Turkish President’s ‘crazy’ canal scheme

 and its implications for the Treaty of Montreux

For Washington Diplomat on Yemen’s continuing conflict

For Asia Times on Turkish President Erdogan’s firing of his central bank chief and withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention

For Asia Times on Kuwait’s troubles, political and economic

For Asia Times on the way Cairo’s redevelopment is riding roughshod over many local communities and threatening historic neighbourhoods

For Washington Diplomat on the challenges any new attempt to restart talks on Cyprus will face

For Asia Times on the difficulties faced by expats working in the Gulf – and their declining numbers 

For Cyprus Mail on the resumption of talks between Turkey and Greece after years of increasingly poor relations

For Asia Times on the dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over Africa’s largest current development project – the GERD dam in Ethiopia

For Asia Times on clashing priorities in the Western Balkans between local coal, Chinese investment and the need for Green energy transition

 

For Foreign Policy, on the regional challenges facing the US president-elect.

 

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