Dr. Jebril El-Abidi

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…

After years of embers, chaos and war, Libya is in dire need for reconciliation and for repairing what sedition, fighting and warring have caused — a war that went on for different reasons and in pursuit of different aims but left the same victims, Libyans in the east, west and south, some who were…

“When the river’s water supply depletes all the Pharaoh's soldiers are to sprint into action and to return only after liberating the Nile from what had been restricting its flow”, reads a phrase inscribed on the walls of the Temple of Horus, while the Egyptian foreign ministry says: “We will not…

An important question raises itself: What if George Floyd had been killed with no cameras or social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to cover his death? Will this racial crime have disappeared just like many others in the US and the world? The killing of George Floyd exposed the…

‘Tunisia-nizing’ Ennahda or ‘Brotherhood-izing’ Tunisia? This is the intractable and incomprehensible formula in Tunisia these days in light of Ennahda leadership’s insistence on maintaining ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, accused of terrorism in many countries. There is considerable…

Erdogan is recruiting children to fight in Libya, a process that qualifies as a full-blown war crime, a humanitarian catastrophe and a clear violation of the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries. This crime of recruiting children has been…

China was accused of distorting and hiding important and sensitive information about the COVID-19 pandemic by not being attentive to the dangers of the virus from the start, and being late to announce, or perhaps delaying the announcement of the pandemic. This has had grave consequences on world…