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A Gulf Suez Canal? Bypassing the Strait of Hormuz may be harder than its advocates suggest

  • For decades, planners have floated the idea of canals and pipelines to avoid the Hormuz choke point
  • Mountains, costs and security risks make any canal linking the Gulf to the Indian Ocean hugely impractical
By Jonathan Gornall ·
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How Gulf airlines are staying afloat amid a war that has severed key aerial corridors

By Jonathan Gornall ·
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For thousands of Lebanon’s children, displacement is all they know, IRC’s Basma Alloush tells Arab News

By GABRIELE MALVISI ·
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‘We condemn unjustifiable Iranian attacks on GCC countries,’ EU Special Representative for the Gulf Luigi Di Maio tells Arab News

By Lama Alhamawi ·
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Viewed from Kuwait, Iran has crossed the Gulf’s red line

By Dr. Bashayer Al-Majed ·
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Could UNESCO tentative listing save Gaza and the West Bank’s endangered heritage?

By Jumana Khamis ·
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How Israel-Hezbollah war is displacing hundreds of thousands and pushing Lebanon toward humanitarian disaster

By NAJIA HOUSSARI ·
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ANALYSIS: Could Lebanon’s bid for direct Israel talks reshape a decades-long conflict?

By NAJIA HOUSSARI & GABRIELE MALVISI ·
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Are water desalination plants the Gulf’s Achilles’ in the latest Middle East conflict?

By GABRIELE MALVISI ·
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How Lebanon’s health system is coping as renewed war drives mass displacement

By ANAN TELLO ·
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Why Lebanese are enduring another wave of war and displacement

By NAJIA HOUSSARI ·
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How Iran’s massive arsenal of missiles and drones became its last line of defense

By ANAN TELLO ·
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How Israel’s ‘buffer zone’ plan could redraw the map of southern Lebanon

By NAJIA HOUSSARI ·

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