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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Rime Allaf

 Rime Allaf

Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme

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Expertise

  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Middle East politics
  • Syria
  • Media
  • Islam and the West
  • Iraq

Further information can be found on www.rimeallaf.com.


Projects

  • The impact of nationalist-socialist ideology on Syria
  • Media and spin in the Middle East conflict

Recent Publications

  • 'Open for Business: Syria's Quest for a Political Deal', Chatham House Briefing Paper, July 2007
  • 'Women of Jordan: Islam, labor and the law - Review', International Affairs, Jan 2004
  • 'Recycled delusions in Geneva, Bitter Lemons', November 2003
  • 'America's fury over a potential French veto', February 2003
  • 'The real weapon of mass destruction', October 2002
  • 'Ignorant theories on Arab-Israeli culture only broaden delusions', October 2001

Experience

2002 to date Independent writer and analyst on Middle East affairs, London
2002 UK Correspondent for The Daily Star (Lebanon), London
1999 to 2001 Managing Director, Phoenix Consulting, Damascus
1991 to 1997 Senior Research Manager, Market Insight-Yankelovich, Vienna

Broadcast Experience

Extensive

Languages

Trilingual - English, French & Arabic
Spanish, German & Italian (not for broadcast)