AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Charles becomes King

15 Sep 2022

King Charles III, 73, has been groomed for the job but, as they say, he is his “own man” rather than a clone of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth...

Greenhouse gas emissions play havoc, claims report

11 Sep 2022

The Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME) region has become a global hot spot, warming twice as fast as the world’s average rate, and a major emitter of greenhouse gases....

Last man unknown

08 Sep 2022

The body of the sole survivor of an “uncontacted” Brazilian indigenous tribe was found in a hammock outsite his straw hut in an Amazon reserve by an agent of that...

A leader who tried to rescue flagging Soviet Union

04 Sep 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev was a peacemaker, revolutionary, and visionary whose efforts to thaw relations between Russia and the West, reform the sclerotic Soviet economy, and promote a world without war came...

An exceptional leader

01 Sep 2022

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed his sadness over the death on Aug.14, her country Pakistan’s National Day, of pioneering UN official Dr. Nafis Sadik, 92, at her home in...

Trump ‘a danger’ to democracy, national security

28 Aug 2022

Donald Trump is fighting four criminal investigations while campaigning to be chosen as the Republican party’s presidential candidate. He is facing indictment in New York City over dubious business practices,...

A principled stand

25 Aug 2022

Liz Cheney has become a heroic figure for all of us who cannot stomach Donald Trump and rightly fear his re-election in 2024. A second Trump term in office would...

Al-Sadr-Coordination Framework faceoff goes on

21 Aug 2022

Baghdad remains trapped by the confrontation between Iraqi nationalist cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr and Iran-aligned Coordination Framework. If the face-off continues, commentators fear violence could erupt as tempers fray in the...

Financial meltdown

18 Aug 2022

Bassam al-Shaikh Hussein became an instant hero a week ago when he entered the Federal Bank of Lebanon with a hunting gun and a jerrycan of petrol to demand his...

Raising the prestige of the Indian Tricolour

14 Aug 2022

This morning, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoisted the national flag from the wall of the Red Fort in New Delhi and, in a televised address to his 1.39 billion...

Michael Jansen

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