Eyad Abu Shakra

These are grim and deeply concerning hours, yet they do not require us to repeatedly fall back on conspiracy theories. We are undeniably trapped in a state of enduring despair and painful backwardness, the repercussions of which are far worse than any conspiracy. Alongside these twin blights of…

At the end of last week, during an Arab intellectual forum, a diplomat spoke about the Arab world’s situation with a degree of pessimistic candor rarely heard from professional diplomats. Speaking “from the heart” in deliberately unscripted remarks, he said: “Our situation is bad, and things are…

American political commentator Tucker Carlson was traditionally regarded as part of the far right, at least until 2023. More recently, however, he has moved away from his former position during a period of significant ideological and self-interested shifts at the heart of some of America’s major…

It is no longer a secret that the world is experiencing what might be called a political earthquake. Political parties, particularly those in Europe that analysts long regarded as "parties of government" throughout the Cold War era, are now struggling for survival. Political identity…

Among the most famous sayings of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him: "If you are in retreat and death is advancing, how swift the meeting must be." I recalled this wise saying amid the clamor that accompanied the words of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who resigned from the…

The issue of the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon has ended as a "distraction" and a different phase has begun—one that changes nothing in the substance of the matter. The Israeli propaganda machine, organized and disseminated by experts in psychological warfare, gave many people, including…

Today, the Druze, or the Muwahhidun, find themselves, wherever they live, prisoners of a situation they did not seek but that was imposed upon them by the circumstances of history, the complexities of geography, the baseness of intelligence agencies, and the savagery of advanced technology. The…

The matter is settled. There is absolutely no connection between the ancient Arab poet Di'bil al-Khuza'i, on the one hand, and Elon Musk and Sam Altman, on the other. That is what logic says, and the numbers confirm it. Di'bil was an Arab poet who lived during the Abbasid era in Iraq between 765…

The upcoming US midterm elections in early November promise to be exceptional in every sense of the word. They will amount to a series of major “tests” taking place on a single day—tests that could lead to a different set of calculations for President Donald Trump’s second term and redefine the…

Lebanon marked Army Day on August 1. On this day in 1945, France - the mandatory power over Syria and Lebanon since 1920 - handed the military units under its control in the Levant to the national government of independent Lebanon. Yet, the occasion falls this year under abnormal circumstances. One…