The Desert Algorithm: How Gulf Monarchies Are Engineering the Post-Western Order
The future may rise quietly from controlled sand. Riyadh, May 2026. The Gulf monarchies are no longer easy to classify. They are not simply energy…
Tarek Al-Mansour
Saudi geopolitical analyst and Middle East correspondent at Phoenix24. Expert in Gulf diplomacy, energy security, and AI-driven power dynamics in the region.
The Gulf After Hormuz: Oil, Algorithms, and the New Architecture of Survival
The chokepoint reopened, but the illusion collapsed. Riyadh, April 2026 The Gulf after Hormuz is not entering a period of restored normalcy. It is entering…
Petroalgorithms and Digital Caliphates: The Gulf’s Technocratic Islam in the Age of AI
Riyadh, September 2025. The Gulf has always been defined by oil, religion, and power. Yet in this decade, those three pillars are merging into something…
Hormuz Aflame: How the Gulf is Rewriting Global Security Between AI and Oil
In the strait where the desert meets the sea, a single move can ignite the world’s economy. Riyadh, August 2025 — The Strait of Hormuz, a…
Petroalgorithms and Digital Mosques: The Rise of Technocratic Islam in the Gulf
Riyadh, July 2025 While global media fixates on oil prices and Wall Street’s algorithmic cycles, a new paradigm of power is being quietly engineered in…
Petroyuan, Islam, and Silicon Wadis: The Gulf’s New Financial Architecture in a Post-Dollar World
Doha, July 2025 The dollar’s supremacy is not collapsing under the weight of declarations or warheads, but through quiet signatures inked in yuan, the rise…