Eyad Abu Shakra

Excessive burdens being placed on the shoulders of Lebanon - its people, its army, and its authorities – are too great for the country withstand. It is not fair to put the region’s afflictions on a fragile entity like Lebanon, which had itself been born of historical settlements that begin with…

The British are fond of the proverb: “One swallow does not make a summer.” This reference to migrating birds conveys the idea that one-off exception cannot be taken as a rule that applies everywhere at all times. A young Muslim candidate of the left’s victory in the New York mayoral race is one…

Lebanese citizens start and end their days with questions of what the future will bring amid political paralysis and economic hardship... and with justified anxiety about the future. Meanwhile, Washington piles on the pressure to push through the “Lebanese part” of its regional effort that…

Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, has spoken candidly about the crisis of his country’s relationship with its “great neighbor,” the United States. US President Donald Trump, an ardent enthusiast of “tariff wars,” waging them against all kinds of major global economic powers, decided to end…

It is clear that the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit has joined the long list of contentious issues that predictably stir controversy, whether within our Middle Eastern region or in the broader regional environment and the international community. Each side interprets developments based on its own…

US President Donald Trump lost the battle for the Nobel Peace Prize. In another sense, however, he did not, winning his bet on a “peace deal” in Gaza, though he didn’t really win that either. This is not “a play on words;” these are the facts. As for the Nobel Prize, Trump may have taken his…

The “Fertile Crescent,” the cradle of Middle Eastern and global civilization, is currently undergoing structural shifts whose repercussions are difficult to gauge in a world where everything moves in several directions at breakneck speed. This is a piece of territory undergoing upheaval on every…

I am not one to make definitive, unequivocal claims about any matter, even when I feel I have enough information to take a position. I will make an exception: I am confident that, this very day next year, the world will be in a very different place... We will find ourselves in a precarious world…

The sanctions announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on organizations documenting Israeli war crimes and human rights violations in the Gaza Strip were striking. This announcement came just days after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, which had brought China, Russia, and India…

I have been living in Britain since the late 1970s, but I have never witnessed what I am seeing today. Some roundabouts in London have been painted with the red cross of St. George - England’s historic and religious emblem, which also features, alongside the cross of St. Andrew for Scotland and the…