The World Cup’s huge following allows the host nation to promote itself to a global audience. Hoping to utilise this, Qatar has spent up to $300 billion US dollars preparing for the tournament, 15 times more than Russia’s 2018 cycle.…

When Saudi Arabia launched a diplomatic crusade against Qatar last June, it was widely speculated that the crisis would reach a swift resolution, as was the case with a similar situation three years prior. However, 2014 saw a quieter conflict in which…

Since US President Donald Trump delivered an iconic speech at Riyadh’s US-Arab-Islamic Summit earlier this year, a new political crisis has begun to develop. A crisis which will reshape the region permanently, bringing extensive geopolitical implications. On June 5, tensions between Qatar…