Commentary
Nur Arafeh
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Commentary
Oil and Geopolitical Stability
In an interview, Ziad Daoud discusses how global economic dynamics are putting pressure on Gulf petroleum producers.
By Nur Arafeh
Published on Nov 6, 2025
Ziad Daoud is chief emerging markets economist at Bloomberg Economics, as well as a non-residential senior fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Nur Arafeh interviewed him for Diwan in mid-October to discuss the mounting fiscal strains of declining oil prices and the challenges of economic diversification, as well as the potential impacts of President Donald Trump’s economic policies on the Middle East.
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About the Author
Nur Arafeh
Former Nonresident Scholar, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Nur Arafeh is a senior fellow and head of the Political Economy Program at the Arab Center in Washington, DC. Until September 2026, she was a fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center and co-leader of its Political Economy Program.
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