AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Leading the way

28 Mar 2019

The image of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugging a grieving Muslim woman projected onto the face of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, was a moving tribute...

Golan: Trump upsets Arabs again

24 Mar 2019

Donald Trump’s tweet favouring US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights, occupied by Israel in 1967, has been widely condemned in this region and Europe, but he...

Terror in Christchurch

22 Mar 2019

Three factors made normally peaceful New Zealand vulnerable to an anti-Muslim terrorist attack: a history of white supremacy, proximity to Australia, and lax gun laws. While New Zealand and Australia...

America has been shunned and shamed

20 Mar 2019

A week ago Hassan Rouhani paid his first official visit to Iraq as Iran’s president. He has been preceded by a series of visits by the first vice president,...

Syria should be put back together again

11 Mar 2019

Students in Syria’s northwest Idlib province have protested the closure of 13 higher education institutes since January by the so-called Salvation Government imposed by al-Qaeda’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. The...

Global school strikes over climate issue

09 Mar 2019

Twenty thousand British students joined Continental colleagues a week ago to call on governments to take action to counter climate change. Students in more than 60 towns and cities around...

Centrepoint of a struggle

21 Jan 2019

The modest town of Manbij in north-central Syria has become the focus of the struggle for post-war presence on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey. The US, the...

Michael Jansen

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