Mamdouh al-Muhainy
Mamdouh al-Muhainy is the General Manager of Al Arabiya and Al Hadath.

China Doesn’t Believe in Lavrov’s Theory

Visibly grinning despite having their masks on, the foreign ministers of China and Russia greeted one another with an elbow bump when they met in Beijing a few days ago. Despite the apparent harmony between the two countries, they neither think the same way nor sing to the same tune. Lavrov…

Putin: Strike First and Strike Hard

Today, as his military fights a bloody war, President Putin has not ceased to give speeches that mix political and cultural criticism of the West. In one angry speech, Putin said the West was an empire of lies and vowed that the Russians would not bow their heads. However, this is not the first…

Taxi Driver Valdimir Putin’s Revenge!

Ninety-year-old Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissenger was asked what keeps him up at night. He didn’t hesitate: “I worry about China. I worry that we won’t manage to integrate it into the international order.” The bad news is that it is not just China that wants out of the global liberal…

Despite the Bad News… The World is Safer Today

The news of bombings by Al Qaeda and Iranian militias and ISIS’s crimes have left the Middle East’s map stained with blood. However, if we were to look beyond this and our devastated region, examining the broader world, we would see that the rates of violence have receded to a degree unparalleled…

Why Did Biden Withdraw from Afghanistan?

US envoy to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke disagreed with President Obama’s insistence on significantly increasing the number of troops stationed in Afghanistan, which had been requested by the military. He argued that a quick spike in the number of troops would mean a decisive subsequent decrease…

President Bush’s Tears

“I’m sad... And it breaks my heart...” This is what a teary-eyed former President George Bush said as he made the claim that the US administration’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan will have devastating effects on Afghan society, especially the women and girls who will again be living under…

Are White Supremacists More Dangerous than ISIS?

Last week, President Biden stood up to deliver a speech about the Tulsa race massacre in which dozens of black people were killed and their homes and property burned down 100 years ago. Among the powerful phrases on the bitter memories of this tragic incident and the major lessons to learn from it,…

The US Withdrawal and the Flogging of Afghan Women

The 2001 Afghanistan War had noble aims, like doing away with a mix of savage groups- most prominently Al-Qaeda. The latter was defeated, Afghan society and women were liberated from the worst oppression seen in the 20th century. Among the most shining historical scenes was that of the society…

Biden is Losing Sleep Over China

The international order that we see today was shaped after a long period of religious wars between the Catholics and Protestants, most famously the Thirty Years War. The warring parties came to the conclusion that no side could emerge victorious from these religious wars and that the economy…

Attempts to Undermine Relationship Between KSA, US

The Saudi-US relationship has always been founded on solid grounds and mutual interests, but the ongoing US internal partisan conflict risks souring this relationship because, at the end of the day, partisans have only one objective: garnering as many votes possible to get their party re-elected…