Dr. Jebril El-Abidi

Libya is currently facing the dilemma of electing its president either directly, through the people’s votes, as the Libyans want, or through parliament, as the minority represented by Islamic political groups want. After the decade-long presidential vacuum and the disputes over the president’s…

''I come among you like a pilgrim"..said Pope Francis in his message which stressed that “we are all brothers”. The Pope will pray in the Iraqi city of Ur, the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham, seeking to convey a message to the world and to the followers of the three monotheistic religions,…

Libya is suffering from international disputes entangled with internal chaos and conflicts, which has resulted in the willful postponement of a solution to the crisis and the perpetuation of chaos and plunder of public money. This situation has left the people of the country suffering from both…

Libya has been suffering for years from the prolongation of its crisis and its people’s suffering because of a blend of international and internal disputes, and chaos, which has resulted in deliberate efforts to delay the crisis’ solutions. Jan Kubis, a former Slovak diplomat, is the UN’s…

In the US, neither the election of a black president, Obama, nor a white president, Trump, succeeded in uniting the long-divided nation. The elections brought to light acute political and social divisions between the north and south that go back to the pre-independence and civil war era. These…

Lebanon has become fundamentally different after the ammonium nitrate explosion at Beirut port. The status quo wherein Hezbollah is a ruling force that stands above the law has become rejected in the Shiite street before the Sunni street, and by the majority of the political parties as well. The…

Lebanon is in despair and Beirut has been devastated by the return of explosions in the midst of a suffocating economic and political crisis. The calamitous explosion in Beirut’s port is a crime and a humanitarian disaster, regardless of whether it was set off intentionally or as a result of…