Mohammed Soliman, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), argues that the old ‘Middle East’ lens no longer explains the region. The Iran war has underscored that point. Neelam Raaj speaks to Soliman about his new book, ‘West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East’, and how the region is both shaping Asia and being reshaped by itYour title uses ‘West Asia’, a term more common in India than in the West. Was this a deliberate reframing — and why does India belong in it?The Middle East encodes a worldview in which Europe is the...