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Kim Ghattas

Kim is author of ‘Black Wave’, distinguished fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics and an FT contributing editor.
  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    How far should the Arab world go in normalising Assad?

    Sudan holds a lesson for those heads of state now beating a path to Damascus

    Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (R) welcomes Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan to Damascus last week
  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Saudi rapprochement with Iran is an exercise in buying time

    Washington is right to be pragmatic on China’s role in brokering the deal

    A funeral for fighters killed during clashes with Houthi rebels, in the western Yemeni province of Hodeida
  • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
    Bashar al-Assad
    The Syrian earthquake is not a free pass for Assad

    The president is positioning himself as a solution to the wicked problems he has created

    Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma meet an earthquake victim in Latakia. Syria’s president, a pariah for the past decade, now has reason to feel confident again
  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Unrest and unsettled leaders bode ill for the Middle East in 2023

    From Israel to Iran, there is a lengthy list of potential problems in the region

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Lebanon
    Lebanon’s constitutional void is an opportunity for regional players

    Not just the presidency but a slew of key positions need to be filled

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran may have overestimated US appetite for reviving the nuclear deal

    The breakdown in negotiations is being welcomed in some parts of the Middle East but risks forcing Tehran into a corner

    Illustration of the eye in the pyramid from the US dollar note floating with white skulls in a red sea while a silhoutte of a woman in black robe and hijab walks past
  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles 

  • Friday, 31 January, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    Black Wave — how Saudi-Iran rivalry has unravelled the Middle East

    Kim Ghattas’s history of the Islamic world since 1979 reflects on what might have been

    Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran in 1979 after the deposition of the Shah
  • Friday, 29 March, 2013
    ReviewLife & Arts
    States of indifference

    Some commentators claim Barack Obama prefers drones to diplomacy – but the jury is still out on both his foreign policy and presidency

    President Barack Obama, right, with Richard Holbrooke
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