Hussam Itani

Vladimir Putin snatched from the Afghans their right to choose the system of governance that suits them as he was criticizing the West’s attempts to impose its model of democracy. However, keeping the peoples of the Third World hostage to their “traditions” is no less arbitrary than any attempt…

In a single week, four people were murdered near petrol stations: three in the North died in a shootout that spiraled into familial armed clashes, and a fourth in the South died after a speeding truck crashed into his car, which he had been parked as he had was waiting in line to attain this…

Lebanon's suffering from one of the world’s three worst economic crises since the middle of the nineteenth century has not provided an incentive sufficient to compel the political clique imposing its control over the country to take steps to prevent the exacerbation of the comprehensive collapse. …

From the first day of the round of fighting in Gaza, it became apparent that Hamas had made significant gains. It prevented Israel from celebrating Jerusalem Day and fired successive rounds of missiles to Tel Aviv and several cities far from the frontlines, using novel tactics that confounded the…

In the long queue in front of a prison camp where parents were waiting for news of their children and relatives, a woman met Anna Akhmatova, a famous poet, who was also standing in line to inquire about her detained son. The woman pointed to the people waiting, who were overwhelmed by fear, cold,…

With the hawks’ departure from the US administration, and the doves’ entry, there’s no harm in some murders. Preparations for changes which Iran’s supporters have been talking about have begun. Trump left and Biden arrived, bringing friends of Ali Khamenei and Bashar al-Assad to his administration…

Under the weight of the crisis in living conditions facing citizens, Lebanon’s squares witnessed protests and demonstrations once again amid the state’s resignation from its duties and its adoption of policies of procrastination, deferral and disregard the country’s economic and political collapses…

As the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was warning that Pfizer, the company the produced the Covid-19 vaccine, not bearing responsibility for any side effects it may cause would leave it unaccountable if it “turned you into a crocodile,” the television station affiliated with the Lebanese…