Has US war on Iran killed the 'Gulf moment'?

Middle East Eye · April 7, 2026 Politics

Has US war on Iran killed the 'Gulf moment'? In 2018, Emirati academic Abdulkhaleq Abdulla published a book titled The Gulf Moment , arguing that states such as the UAE , Qatar and Saudi Arabia had eclipsed countries such as Egypt and Iraq - the historical core of the region - and were now projecting political, economic and cultural power on the world stage. Central to this transformation, he argued, was the deep integration of Gulf states within the global economy.

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