Mamdouh al-Muhainy

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 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…

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…

Zero facts and one hundred percent analysis, as one Western commentator put it. This is how one could describe the CIA report on Khashoggi’s murder, which contained a blend of analysis and projections that are not based on clear facts. The report cannot stand in the face of a real test, and it…

British leader Winston Churchill spent weeks in the White House with the aim of building a personal relationship with US President Roosevelt and persuading him to join the war against the Nazis and their leader. As a matter of fact, there was no actual need to garner the amity of the American…

Irrational political predictions that were quick to precipitate after the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic asserted that the axis of global power is headed eastward and will abandon the west which has been suffering from a rise in cases and deaths. With the grim images of bodies…

On 15 January 2017, former US President Barack Obama seemed fittingly arrogant for a statesman as he handed the presidency to his successor President Trump, whom everybody knows he despises and who he turned into a mockery on talk shows. In the famous meeting with journalists, he humiliated…