Regional response: How Gulf monarchies leveraged Trump’s visit

In the latest episode of the WOMENP podcast series, Ellie Geranmayeh welcomes Dina Esfandiary, Middle East geoeconomics lead at Bloomberg; Yasmine Farouk, Gulf and Arabian Peninsula project director at International Crisis Group; and Dania Thafer, executive director at the Gulf International Forum. Together, they discuss how Arab Gulf monarchies used Trump’s latest visit to demonstrate their regional leverage—for example, Saudi Arabia leader Mohammad bin Salman emerged as a clear mover and shaker in brokering a historic meeting on Syria.

But did Saudi Arabia also make gains on the Palestine-Israel conflict? What are Qatar’s expectations as regional mediator on both the Gaza conflict and the Iran file? And how are Arab Gulf monarchies seeking to influence Trump on his deal-making attempts with Iran?

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Bookshelf

1. Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers
2. New Order in the Gulf: The Rise of the UAE
3. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
4. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
5. Love Stories on Al-Asha Street
6. Pieces in motion: Rebalancing power in a new Levantine order