Nadim Koteich

Israel and Iran agree on obliterating the Palestinian national project through Gaza, and differ on everything else. Under Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership, Israel has sought to crush the prospects of a unified Palestinian state. Meanwhile, Iran has to kill off any hope for peace in the region…

There has been a seachange in Mohammed bin Salman’s stance on the administration of President Joe Biden since the interview he gave to The Atlantic 16 months ago, which now seems a long way away from his recent Fox News interview. When the magazine asked him what he thought of Biden’s opinion…

This G20 Summit was not like those that had preceded it. The New Delhi Summit seemed to encapsulate the current state of the world, reflecting geopolitical shifts and global polarization. Washington seemed to have dialed down its pretensions to "moral superiority,” behaving less arrogantly and…

Hassan Nasrallah heralded a new modus vivendi between Hezbollah and Israel: “Stone Age for Stone Age.” This is nothing but another testament to how far detached from reality this man is, and how weak his senses of history and power dynamics are. With his formula, Nasrallah takes us back to…

There is probably no figure quite like Edmund Burke in the Arab world today. The 18th-century Irish-British who, to a large extent, laid the foundations of conservative political thought through his critique of the French Revolution, developed a philosophy that advocates gradual change rather than…

With last week’s diplomatic tango between US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, China and the US took their first step towards putting an end to the hostile rhetoric that has marked disputes between the two countries in recent years. They have begun…