Jonathan Power - weekly columns

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Sep 30, 20244 min read

The Lack of Oxygen in the Middle East.

American Middle East interventionists used to chide President Barack Obama for not doing more. Why was the US running away from Yemen,...

Sep 30, 20244 min read

American Middle East interventionists used to chide President Barack Obama for not doing more. Why was the US running away from Yemen,...

Sep 23, 20244 min read

Eleven hundred years ago Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba in Spain which was Muslim. The Middle...