Monday, March 29, 2021

Middle East: An Everlasting Awakening

A super-modern giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal serves as a dramatic, graphic metaphor, both for what is happening in the Middle East and the degree of importance that the region has for the whole world. 

Inn a sense, the title of the 10th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club “The Middle East in Search of a Lost Awakening”, has acquired additional symbolism: the whole world held its breath for a week, waiting to resume shipping along one of its most important trade routes. Now that the ship has been freed, the only question which remains is when the situation will return to normal and what the accident will have cost.

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