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Hany Beshr is a researcher and a columnist. He has also produced a number of documentary films about issues such as NATO, the anti-war movement in the UK, and the Balfour Declaration. He has worked as a journalist and correspondent for a number of channels and newspapers, including Al Jazeera TV and the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram.
Over the course of the past ten years, NATO[1] has consistently invited Saudi Arabia and Oman to join the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), which launched in 2004 as a cooperation framework between NATO and the GCC countries. So far, the ICI contains just four Gulf partners (Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates), and neither Riyadh nor Muscat has accepted the invitation.
