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Arab states’ simple equation to solve Chinese investment dilemma

Relations between China and the Arab world are as simple as 1+2+3. That’s the formulation conceived by Beijing two years ago in an...

The many benefits of India’s growing ties with Saudi Arabia and UAE

When Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser cut the ceremonial ribbon in New Delhi to inaugurate the state-owned global energy giant’s...

BRICS, the 85 World and the future of the Middle East

When British economist Jim O’Neill dubbed the fast-growing, large, emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China as...

What France and Belgium’s World Cup success says about European immigration

This article originally appeared in The Washington Post on July 6, 2018. View it here. When the French national team electrified the...

Mo Salah is the unifying force the world needs right now

This article originally appeared in The Washington Post on June 12, 2018. View it here. “Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem,” the television...

Is Dubai a model for economic diversification in the Persian Gulf?

This article was originally published by CNN on June 4, 2018. View it here. On a sunny October morning just over three decades ago, an...

Afshin Molavi in Reuters, "India’s most vital hub city isn’t in India"

Look up at the departures screens at any major Indian airport and you are likely to see a familiar pattern: Dubai and Abu Dhabi appear...

Afshin Molavi explains the "Four Disruption-proof Trends for Our Disruptive World"

“Everyone has a plan,” the American boxer Mike Tyson once quipped, “that is, until you get punched in the face.” Policy-makers, strategic...

Afshin Molavi tells The National: One of the defining features of our century will be the rise of th

If you were a newly married couple in China in the early 1980s, there were three aspirational items on your wedding list: a bicycle, a...

emerge85: A New Lab for Global Connectivity

The global middle-class is projected to grow by 3 billion people in the next 20 years. What will these growing economies produce and...

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