Dalia Ziada

Dalia Ziada is director of the Liberal Democracy Institute of Egypt.

FOREIGN MINISTERS from Egypt and Gulf Cooperation Council countries meet in Mecca last month. Arab states, particularly in the Gulf, are recalibrating their positions toward the US-Iran nuclear talks because they fear being left behind by the US and outmaneuvered by Israel, says the writer.

Nuclear talks may empower, embolden Iran if US isn't careful - opinion

Without these considerations, the US risks unintentionally accelerating a new Cold War in the Middle East.

APRIL 26, 2025

THEN-US president Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and prime minister Menachem Begin join hands at the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty at the White House in 1979. Sadat declined to take Gaza because he knew it was a minefield, says the writer.

Is Trump's Gaza proposal a strategic move or political gambit? - opinion

Trump’s talent for making unexpected, bold moves could be the beginning of a larger strategy that we have yet to fully understand.

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad poses with a barbie doll made in her likeness

Barbie in hijab: Glorification of oppression, or empowerment?

Imagine how this little doll can inspire millions of young girls in Muslim families to realize their utmost potential, regardless of what they look like or how they choose to dress.

DECEMBER 2, 2017

A new strategy to combat terrorism and advance human rights

In that sense, we should understand that terrorism is not a threat to human rights, but a threat to human existence

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

AN AMBULANCE drives by the Suez Canal University Hospital where many victims from the Sinai terror attack were treated. (Reuters)