Hazem Saghieh

In 2003, a British writer and journalist named Alan George published a book that was aptly titled "Syria: Neither Bread Nor Freedom." While some regimes provide their people bread without freedom and others safeguard freedom without providing bread, the regime George discusses in his book denies…

From the moment the missile fell on the school in Majdal Shams, it was evident that the tragedy in the Golan Heights could potentially precipitate a succession of other tragedies in other places. The greatest fear was that it could trigger "sedition" ("fitna" in Arabic) between Shiites and the…

For decades, "isolationists" in Lebanon were portrayed as a "bunch" and a "clique" whose power was attributed to “its collaboration with colonialism." The term "isolation" was itself meant to signal that they were marginal and insignificant. This "clique" was isolated from a sweeping mass movement…

On August 26, 1789, exactly 42 days after the day Bastille had been stormed, which was considered the day the French Revolution won, the Constituent Assembly in Paris issued what came to be known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Inspired by the values of the Enlightenment…

The door to reassessments and reflections on violence was opened wide immediately after the failed attempt to assassinate Donald Trump. The history of the United States, as we well know, is brimming with violence, particularly against the "red" indigenous population and the Afro-American “blacks.”…

For a week now, democrats around the world have been celebrating France’s immense victory. Democracy succeeded in preventing the extremist National Rally party from obtaining a parliamentary majority, even denying it first and second place. Strikingly, however, many of those who are now praising…

Despite the importance of reaching a ceasefire in Gaza and southern Lebanon, and of that happening sooner rather than later, not many have argued that such a development would open the door to a conclusive peace. The fact is that the fighters themselves, in all of the conflict’s many fronts, do not…

Many are eulogizing the West’s liberal parliamentary model today. They are armed with an array of arguments: its foreign policies- especially its position on the war in Gaza, the results of the recent French elections, Donald Trump potentially making his way back to the White House, and the…

Many politicians have taken a decision, at some point, that led to war or have sparked a war through a policy they pursued that placed a single consideration over all others. However, the vast majority of these wars, which were fought over a piece of land and the resources in it, in what direction…

Over the broad era of the past century and a half, the world witnessed four major developments that we have come to recognize as major setbacks. In 1914, the First World War broke out and "crowned" Europe’s "belle epoque" in a manner no one had anticipated. Indeed, since the Franco-Prussian War…