“The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.”
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[Media Comments] Pétro-États du Golfe, transition économique à risque
My remarks for an article by Sébastien Castelier in the French webzine Orient XXI: ▪️Au Koweït, « il y a maintenant beaucoup de protestations silencieuses contre l’introduction de taxes » analyse Clemens Chay, directeur de recherche pour les pays du Golfe à l’Université Nationale de Singapour (NUS) et spécialiste de cet émirat. ▪️« Tout au long de l’histoire politique du
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Kuwait’s Precarious Personality Politics in Motion
In this co-authored article for The Italian Institute for International Political Studies, Hamad Albloshi and I follow up on an earlier piece to unveil a worrying assessment of Kuwaiti politics. The situation has reached a deplorable stage, marred not only by bureaucratic infighting between government branches, but also by outbreaks of fisticuffs in the parliament
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[Media Comments] Qatar Digital Library digitises 2 million pages of historical and cultural heritage
I gave my testimony to The Peninsula Qatar, lauding the initiative by Qatar National Library for partnering with the British Library to digitise an archive — the world’s largest collection of historical reports, letters, manuscripts, maps, photographs and sound recordings on the Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, and neighboring regions. The scanned material is made free to
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