Tuesday, June 2, 2026

How Iran Plans to Fight America And Dominate the Middle East

With the creeping possibility of a nuclear breakout, its vigorous sponsorship of international non-state armed groups, and its escalating...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: from Balfour Promise to Bush Declaration: The Complications and the Road for a Lasting Peace

In the coming five to ten years, the highest number of key global security challenges will likely be concentrated...

Jihad’s New Heartlands: Why the West Has Failed to Contain Islamic Fundamentalism

by Gabriel G. Tabarani  "Jihad's New Heartlands: How the West Has Failed to Contain Islamic Fundamentalism" is a groundbreaking book offering...

AboutMe

Gabriel G Tabarani is a recognised expert on Middle East and North African affairs. He graduated from the French University in Beirut (St Joseph), specialising in Political and Economic Sciences. He started working in 1973 as a reporter and journalist for the pan-Arab magazine “Al-Hawadess” in Lebanon, later becoming its Washington, D.C. correspondent. He subsequently moved to London in 1979, joining “Al-Majallah” magazine as its Deputy Managing Editor.

Asswak Al-Arab

A monthly political and economic magazine, covering a wide range of topics, published in London by Asswak Al-Arab Publishing Ltd.

Over the course of fifty years, Gabriel Tabarani wrote thousands of articles, most of them in Arabic (Visit www.asswak-alarab.com). Below are some of the articles he wrote in English, which of course do not represent everything he wrote.

Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds: From Maximising Returns to Maximising Power

Gabriel G Tabarani For much of the past three decades, Gulf sovereign wealth funds were judged by a relatively straightforward metric: returns. The logic was simple....

Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds: From Maximising Returns to Maximising Power

Gabriel G Tabarani For much of the past three decades,...

The Next Battle for Arab Banks in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Gabriel G. Tabarani For more than a century, banks competed...

The UAE Is Redrawing the Map of Global Finance

Gabriel G. Tabarani Wars are no longer redrawing only political...

The Gulf After Oil: The Water War

Gabriel G Tabarani If desalination plants across the Gulf stopped...

Lebanon Is Not Negotiating Peace. It Is Negotiating Sovereignty

Gabriel G Tabarani* By any conventional diplomatic measure, the meetings...

The Age of Great Disorder: How the Meaning of Security Has Changed

Gabriel G Tabarani The modern world has never been more...

The Iran Problem Is No Longer About Iran

Gabriel G Tabarani After years of sanctions, sabotage operations and...