AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

A dangerous game

26 Jun 2020

By deploying Turkish troops in the Arab world, the most dangerous man in this region, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is following the bad example of “the most dangerous man in the...

Donald Trump under siege from all quarters

21 Jun 2020

“The most dangerous man in the world” has received reversals which could encourage fearful Republican politicians and officials to distance themselves from him. A man always on the offensive, Donald...

Fighting with history

19 Jun 2020

The causal link between colonialism and racism has been made during global protests against the murder by white police of George Floyd, a black man, in the US state of...

US bid to destroy Syria is a recipe for disaster

14 Jun 2020

Decision-makers in Washington design policies for the Eastern Arab World on a country-by-country basis and all too clearly do not take into consideration the consequences for neighbours and the wider...

The call for change

11 Jun 2020

George Floyd’s life followed the trajectory of many slain black men but his death has launched a revolution. His 6-year-old daughter Gianna, who used to ride sky high on his shoulders,...

Why coronavirus cases in Iran have increased

07 Jun 2020

Coronavirus cases have spiked in Iran, raising fears of a second wave of infections in the region’s epicentre and threatening to spread not only to the Eastern Arab World but...

Facing a health crisis

04 Jun 2020

Donald Trump is systematically destroying the post-World War II global order by withdrawing the US from international treaties, agreements, and organisations. His latest outrage is to postpone until September the...

Racism, a 400-year-old virus infecting America

01 Jun 2020

It is fitting that the white US police officer charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter of an African-American in Minneapolis bears the French family name of Chauvin. The name has...

The dangers of annexation

29 May 2020

During the formation of Israel’s “national unity” coalition the sole issue under negotiation was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank and Jordan...

Iran, Lebanon plagued by virus, sectarianism

25 May 2020

The Covid-19 shared experience of Iran and Lebanon should serve as a warning to countries which have not prepared properly for a staged reopening of popular and public lockdown and...

Michael Jansen

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