Mohammed Alyahya

The writer is a fellow at the Middle East Initiative of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Peace and Security at the Hudson Institute.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks as he attends the Arab League Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 18, 2023.

We're witnessing the birth of a new Middle East - analysis

Nothing illustrates the new realities of the Middle East better than the Saudi Kingdom hosting both Vladimir Zelensky and Bashar al-Assad.

MAY 24, 2023

HADI MATAR appears in court on charges of attempted murder and assault on author Salman Rushdie, in Mayville, New York, last month

Why weren't we shocked at Iran's Salman Rushdie assassination attempt? - opinion

Despite the decades-long Iranian campaign to murder Rushdie, the American response has been curiously muted.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during the 33rd anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran, Iran June 4, 2022.

'Kill Salman Rushdie, not the Iran Deal!'

None of the readily available evidence of state-sponsored violence seems to have factored into how the American press and the White House are choosing to present the attack on Rushdie.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The US is dismantling its own empire - opinion

It is the Biden administration’s determination to resurrect the Iran nuclear deal that has most convinced Saudis that America is determined to dismantle the regional order that it created.

MARCH 28, 2022

US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud arrive to deliver remarks to reporters before meeting at the State Department in October.

America is dismantling the pillars of its own empire - Saudi editor to 'Post'

Ex-editor of Al Arabiya English writes that America is failing the region and siding with Iran while dismantling the last 70 years of regional order.

MARCH 28, 2022

A military vehicle carrying Iranian Zoobin smart bomb (L) and Sagheb missile under pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during a parade to commemorate the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), in Tehran September 22, 2011.