AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Migrants’ fate depends on Europeans’ mercy

21 Nov 2021

Iraq’s repatriation of citizens trapped on the Belarus-Poland border has saved them from exposure to the harsh winter of northern Europe but is certain to have deepened their misery as...

Bolstering bilateral relations

18 Nov 2021

The meeting in Damascus of UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has given a fresh boost to efforts by five Arab countries to reconcile...

Hapless Afghans paying the price for US mess

14 Nov 2021

The usual double standards operate when the West deals with migrants seeking to enter Europe and Afghan refugees flowing into Iran. European Union (EU) leaders have pledged solidarity with Poland...

Popular ignorance

11 Nov 2021

The US largely remains locked into itself, fractured by racism which fuels culture wars between educated and uneducated, fans covid infections, and generally allows Washington to do what it pleases...

Why China has a deep mistrust of America

08 Nov 2021

US President Joe Biden has pledged that if Washington returns to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, the US would only withdraw once again if Iran violates the terms of...

Heating up

04 Nov 2021

In the run-up to the ongoing climate summit in Glasgow Sir David Attenborough, the world’s most prominent climate campaigner, warned against delay in tackling the causes of global warming. “If...

Polluters must commit to curbing climate disasters

31 Oct 2021

At the 26th UN Climate Change Conference which opened yesterday at Glasgow in Scotland, 200 countries are being asked to provide targets for cutting polluting gas emissions until they reach...

Firsthand recollections

28 Oct 2021

Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah is the second Muslim of Arab stock to be awarded the coveted Nobel Prize for Literature. The first was Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz who became a laureate in...

Ruling the nation of Afghanistan is a challenging task

24 Oct 2021

The Taliban is all too clearly not yet up to ruling Afghanistan. Over the past two decades, that country and its citizens have joined the 21st century but the Taliban...

Taking a stance

21 Oct 2021

Award winning Irish author Sally Rooney has caused a stir in the literary world by refusing a bid by a leading Israeli publisher to translate her best-selling novel. “Beautiful World,...

Michael Jansen

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