Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind is the director of the Middle East programme of the Oxford Research Group and co-author of The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Peacemaking (IB Tauris, 2014).

The new great regional game: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Decades of corrupt and authoritarian governments in the region which brutally suppressed both secular opposition and moderate Islamists have created the breeding ground for a more nihilist ideology.

By Gabrielle Rifkind

/ 7 Jul 2014

A New Levant: a possible way through in the Syrian crisis

War is not the only solution. Iranian flexibility and political creativity in Syria, and Saudi flexibility as well as political creativity in Iraq, could offer a way through.

By Gabrielle Rifkind

/ 7 Feb 2013