Dr. Nassif Hitti

The current state of the nuclear deal negotiations (Also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) between Iran and the P5+1 could best be described as an “uneasy stalemate.” The attempts to build bridges following the US withdrawal from the agreement during Trump’s term (May 2018), after…

The attacks and incursions by settlers protected by the occupation’s authorities on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Al Ibrahimi Mosque, settlers holding religious rituals in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and escalating violence by the occupation forces against the Palestinian population. The deliberate…

After the Cold War, the feeling in Europe was that war ended would mean the end of the division that had split the continent between East and West, symbolized by the Berlin Wall, too. The victorious West, it had been assumed, would expand to reach Russia’s borders. This sentiment was, of course,…

How does the scene in the Middle East look at the end of 2021, keeping in mind that most observers and those who follow the situation in the region agree that we have been living in a chaotic regional system for years…A system that has seen a weakening or regression of the international rules or…