
Marc Cher-Leparrain (1956-2019)
Pen name of Philippe Henri Gunet, Divisional General of the Air Force, Former Embassy attaché in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula and former Cooperation Officer for North Africa and the Middle East.
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The United Arab Emirates have it in for the Muslim Brotherhood Marc Cher-Leparrain (1956-2019) · February 2017 Less populated and less hegemonic than Saudi Arabia, more discreet than Qatar, the United Arab Emirates has been not less active, especially since 2011, to fight political Islam in all its forms, with the Muslim Brotherhood as its main target. The federation is therefore in frontal opposition (…) -
Does volunteering for Israeli army comply with international law ? Marc Cher-Leparrain (1956-2019) · March 2014 A dozen states in the world are opening the doors of their army to foreign nationals. A single country however is opening them according to sole ethno-religious criterion : Israel. Beyond the ideological raison d’être, this raises the question of compliance with international law by States that (…) -
Oman says No to Saudi Arabia Marc Cher-Leparrain (1956-2019) · January 2014 Unlike Saudi Arabia, locked into its hostility toward Iran, Oman has always been able to maintain good neighbouring policy with the Islamic Republic. While Riyadh sees Shia Iran as a dangerous political and religious rival to its own hegemony in the Gulf, Muscat sees it as a natural and (…)