Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario, Shifting Sands, Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, and the forthcoming China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom.
沙特阿拉伯的王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼（Mohammed bin Salman）质疑，沙特的统治在多大程度上依赖于瓦哈比建立的宗教合法化。
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could well dash expectations that he is gunning for a break with Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism rather than a shaving off of the rough edges of Wahhabi ideology that has been woven into the kingdom’s fabric since its founding more than eighty years ago. Prince Mohammed has fuelled expectations by fostering
巴基斯坦武装分子声称，沙特阿拉伯去年加大了对俾路支省激进的伊斯兰学校或宗教神学院的资助，据称这些神学院是反伊朗战士的避难所。
Iran, in the latest of a series of incidents on its western and south-eastern borders, said it had disbanded a Pakistan-based cell of ant-Shiite militants in a clash this week on the Iranian side of the border. The clash, shrouded in mystery like similar past incidents in the ethnic Baloch province of Sistan and Baluchistan and Kurdish areas in
由阿联酋支持的沙特努力从约旦夺取耶路撒冷伊斯兰教圣地的控制权，这标志着沙特宗教外交和王国寻求地区霸权的更加明显，更加公开的边缘。
A United Arab Emirates-backed Saudi effort to wrest control from Jordan of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem signals a sharper, more overt edge to Saudi religious diplomacy and the kingdom’s quest for regional hegemony that risks deepening divides in the Muslim world. The effort also serves to support Donald J. Trump’s plan for a resolution of the
按照设计或默认情况，印度尼西亚支持美国和沙特将努力强加于巴勒斯坦人和更大的中东地区的努力可能会产生尽可能多的问题，因为它可以提供解决方案。
Yahya Staquf, a diminutive, soft-spoken leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim movement, and Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s advisor on religious affairs, has held a series of meetings in recent weeks that reflect the Muslim world’s shifting attitudes towards Israel and the Palestinians and a re-alignment of socially conservative
由于以色列企图在政治上利用它而取消与以色列的比赛，阿根廷可能会反响超越足球
Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital. The Argentinian decision suggests that despite the fact
这是文化种族灭绝。这不是以色列的食物。它是阿拉伯人（黎巴嫩，巴勒斯坦，叙利亚，约旦）。首先，以色列人夺取土地并在种族上清理阿拉伯人。现在他们拿出他们的食物和文化，并声称他们也是他们的！耻辱 – 詹姆斯佐格比
Nothing in a swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Africa to China is undisputed. Food is often emblematic of disputes over identity, history and political claims that underlie an arc of crisis wracked by ethnic and religious conflict; clamour for political, economic, social, national and minority rights; efforts by states and ethnic
