AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Hammurabi’s legacy

25 Jun 2026

Western civilisation is deeply rooted in the ancient Middle East where agriculture, writing, law, medicine, philosophy, and three monotheistic faiths arose, transforming nomadic societies into populations settled on the...

Iran dominating talks on ending conflict

22 Jun 2026

The US-Israeli war on Iran has been a major miscalculation. Iran has emerged the “victor” simply by surviving the onslaught and is dictating the terms of the ceasefire and...

World Cup politics

18 Jun 2026

The US along with Canada and Mexico is hosting the 2026 World Cup although soccer/football had been neither widely played or not a great favourite in the US. However,...

Iran war – America, Israel yet to realise their goals

14 Jun 2026

The G7 summit convening today in France is expected to be dominated by Donald Trump’s dithering over his Iran war. He has once again demonstrated his predilection for abrupt...

Caught in between

11 Jun 2026

Even before emerging as a country in the 1940s, Lebanon has had to fight repeatedly for independence and sovereignty. The latest manifestation of this decades-long struggle involves Iran, the...

To check low approval, Trump needs to end war

08 Jun 2026

The United States has made a major shift in its policy of rejecting direct talks with groups Washington brands “terrorist.” This shift was publicly marked by President Donald Trump...

Chasing Camelot

05 Jun 2026

On May 29, the assassinated president’s 109th birthday, a Washington judge ordered the removal of Donald Trump’s name on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre for the Performing Arts....

Chasing Camelot

04 Jun 2026

On May 29, the assassinated president’s 109th birthday, a Washington judge ordered the removal of Donald Trump’s name on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre for the Performing Arts....

Trump has kept woes of Gazans on the back-burner

01 Jun 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s expansion of Israel’s control of Gaza from 60 to 70 per cent is a violation not only of the repeatedly breached October 10th, 2023,...

Turning East

29 May 2026

All roads lead to Beijing these days. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited China in April, meeting with President Xi Jinping and...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.