Mamdouh al-Muhainy

The most prominent question the famous sociologist Max Weber posed was this: Why do some groups succeed, and make greater economic leaps, than others? The conclusion Weber reached affirms a strong relationship between religion and economic achievement. Examining the records of the German state…

When President Ronald Reagan took office, the Soviet Union was at the height of its vigor- or so the prevailing belief held. An iron revolutionary system in possession of an enormous nuclear arsenal. Why, then, did it collapse a few years later? Reagan saw what others did not. For all its…

The Iranians are calling on Gulf states to sever ties with the United States. Extremist groups demand the same. Leftists and Arab nationalists have been repeating these same calls for decades. All of this is understandable. It is not new, and they each have their reasons. However, when such demands…

Those who push the idea that the root of the conflict is sectarian, that our disagreements are a Shiite-Sunni divide, help Iran more than anyone else. Without realizing it, they fall into a trap carefully set by the Iranian regime to fragment societies, divide them, and turn a political conflict…

Some intellectuals and commentators argue that while the Iranian regime is waging a war against the Gulf states, it is not necessarily an enemy of the Arab world. They claim that Gulf states seek to drag other Arab states into needless hostilities with Iran. In reality, however, Tehran is more of…

It is natural, in times of major crises like the current moment, for new ideas to emerge, or for old ones to be revived. The most prominent proposal we are now seeing is the call to establish an Arab national security force. The best thing promoters of this idea can do, however, is to stop…

Some commentators have asked why the Iranian regime is striking airports, energy infrastructure, and shopping complexes in Gulf countries and then claimed these locations are foreign military bases! The real answer, of course, is that the Iranian regime knows full well what these sites contain…

Despite the anger of the MAGA base, President Donald Trump has not acquiesced to their demands. Despite the repeated claim that Trump does nothing without the approval of his base, he has shown that he does not always comply with the wishes of this powerful constituency. He showed in Gaza,…

It is not only states that go to war; international systems are also part of the competition. The Russian-Ukrainian war is not a conflict between two states, but between two systems. That is why the Europeans and the Americans, especially under President Joe Biden, support Kyiv, while the Chinese…

Despite President Donald Trump’s criticisms of his predecessor, President Joe Biden, the two men have one thing in common: a strong relationship with Saudi Arabia. True, Biden’s relationship with the Kingdom was on shaky ground at first, but it improved and eventually became as solid as could be…