Help keep Salon independent

Mohammad Ali Salih

Mohammad Ali Salih has been a Washington correspondent for Arabic-language publications in the Middle East since 1980.

Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks to a Democratic gathering at the Cheyenne Civic Center on April 20, 1989 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. | U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“I didn’t know she was Black”: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and skin-color racism

Mohammad Ali Salih
Former US President Donald Trump attends the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States on July 18, 2024. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Arab and Muslim media on the Trump shooting: Dark jokes, darker warnings

Mohammad Ali Salih
Israelis hold placards against the war in Arabic, Hebrew, and English during a demonstration on June 8, 2024. (Matan Golan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Gaza, the Quran and the Torah: Is the Middle East conflict now a religious war?

Mohammad Ali Salih
Protesters wave Nigerien and Russian flags as they gather during a rally in support of Niger's junta in Niamey on July 30, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)

How Russia is winning in Africa: Wave of military coups gains Putin new allies

Mohammad Ali Salih
A man stands by as a fire rages in a livestock market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, on September 1, 2023, in the aftermath of bombardment by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (AFP via Getty Images)

Iran’s troubling move into Africa — and the war in Sudan you haven’t noticed

Mohammad Ali Salih
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman gestures a press conference after the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting in Vienna on Oct. 5, 2022. (VLADIMIR SIMICEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Oil, Russia and reckoning: OPEC’s price hike as a history lesson

Mohammad Ali Salih
The author (left) with his father and son, on a visit to his native village in Sudan, circa 2000. (Courtesy of Mohammad Ali Salih)

Reckoning with colonialism: The British conquered my country — and built my school

Mohammad Ali Salih
Pope Francis, Sayyed Abu al-Qasim al-Dibaji and Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt at Rome's Colosseum for an International Meeting for Peace with leaders of various religions and confessions in Rome, Italy. (Stefano Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Could the pope visit Saudi Arabia? The unlikely religious breakthrough no one noticed

Mohammad Ali Salih
President Reagan bids farewell to President of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko as he departs concluding talks at the White House (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Africa and the Ukraine war: Cold War hangover is keeping many African nations neutral

Mohammad Ali Salih
United States Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why doesn’t the Arab world break with Putin? Consider Sudan’s example

Mohammad Ali Salih
Mohammad Ali Salih on the Lafayette Square side of the white house on 1/15/10 to run with his oped on his "jihad" in front of the white house (Getty Images/The Washington Post)

Veteran Arab journalist: If coronavirus gets me, I’m going back to the White House

Mohammad Ali Salih