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Chris Doyle

Chris Doyle

Chris Doyle is the director of CAABU (the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding). He has worked with the Council since 1993 after graduating with a first class honors degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. As the lead spokesperson for Caabu and as an acknowledged expert on the region, Chris is a frequent commentator on TV and Radio and gives numerous talks around the country on issues such as the Arab Spring, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Islamophobia and the Arabs in Britain. He has had numerous articles published in the British and international media. He has travelled to nearly every country in the Middle East. He has organized and accompanied numerous British Parliamentary delegations to Arab countries. He tweets @Doylech.

Trump’s Muslim hatred about winning votes, not policy

My bet would be that ISIS supporters are rooting for Donald Trump to become President of the United States. This was probably the case even before he scraped the bottom of the fascist barrel by......

 Britain is showing resilience after Paris - for now

ISIS, like al-Qaeda, is more than happy to suck in western forces into a long protracted war in the Islamic heartlands...

 This is no World War III – ISIS is still weak

The attacks in Ankara, Sinai, Beirut and Paris, all claimed by ISIS, highlight a step change in the group’s strategy, taking its barbarism overseas and into the skies. This might suggest an......

 Hysteria, conspiracy and blame – the politics of air disasters

If, as it now increasingly appears, a bomb took down the Russian airliner over Sinai, serious steps must be taken at a security, political and economic level. Overreaction is almost just as dangerous......

 The mythological Blair apology for the Iraq war

He will never say sorry for the Iraq war so for those dreamily expecting this, wake up. ...

 Netanyahu on the Holocaust - How desperate can he get?

Why now? Why at this dangerous moment of acute Israeli-Palestinian tension did Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, chose to revise the most sensitive moment in history, to place a......

 Whether Britain bombs ISIS or not, it will still be failing Syria

The British debate is a perfect encapsulation of the paucity of the international debate on Syria...

 No more speeches at the General Assembly boxing ring

If ending speeches is too radical, why not at least reduce the number of speeches every year...