AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Environmental campaigner

07 Dec 2023

It was fitting that Britain’s King Charles III should sponsor and deliver the opening address at the COP28 UN climate change conference in Dubai a week ago. He said the...

Kissinger’s death stirs fresh controversy

03 Dec 2023

Reviled by many for his bloody legacy and respected by others for a realpolitik approach to foreign affairs, Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 last week has stirred fresh controversy. While...

Trump could win US polls as Biden’s image sags

27 Nov 2023

Since October 7th, Biden has given full backing to Israel’s deadly and devastating war on Gaza. He has divided his Democrat party by alienating young, Arab, and Muslim voters who...

Act of love

23 Nov 2023

British film director Ridley Scott launched “Napoleon” last week at a world premier in the grand Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris. The large screen film went on cinema release...

Violence in other world troublespots too

19 Nov 2023

Violence in the world’s hotspots has soared while international attention has zoomed in on Israel’s war on Gaza. Prior to this deadly and devastating offensive, the focus had been on...

World-wide movement

16 Nov 2023

The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza has tested to their limits 300 local volunteers with Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF or Doctors Without Borders), the independent private global non-governmental association founded...

Biden lagging behind Trump in approval ratings

12 Nov 2023

The United States could lose its perfect credit rating after Moody’s Investors Service said it could downgrade the country’s creditworthiness due to its self-destructive partisan politics. The very suggestion of...

Literature fest

09 Nov 2023

This year’s spectacular Sharjah International Book Fair dwarfs the first book fair in Frankfurt 561 years ago. In Sharjah, Arab and foreign publishers displayed more than 1.5 million books more...

Zelensky is behaving like Winston Churchill

05 Nov 2023

Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began in February 2022, the Biden administration, NATO, US allies and the Western media have portrayed the campaign to defeat Russia as existential for Europe...

Addressing the past

02 Nov 2023

During this week’s visit to Kenya, King Charles III has had to navigate between the British government’s determination that he should focus on UK-Kenya trade and his personal desire to...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.