Samir Atallah

The current workshop aimed at resolving Arab issues is moving at an unprecedented pace. This speed may suggest that we are facing easy matters and roads without barriers and obstacles. But the truth is that we are confronting severe obstacles and a determined will. The method clearly reflects the…

On January 22, 1963, French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Treaty of Cooperation, which was called the ‘Elysée Treaty’. The two leaders ended the worst history of conflicts in Europe, including the two world wars. Their countries turned into the…

One of the most beautiful and profound stories told by Jurji Zaidan, a historian of Arab civilization and the founder of “Al-Hilal” magazine, takes place during his youth when he used to work at his father’s restaurant in Beirut. At the time, he became friends with of group young “tough men” who…

Everything in the United States is a show. Each event has a lot of Hollywood industry and philosophy: The scene must be overwhelming and the real hero is the director, not the actor. The latter is just a tool in his hands. He moves him the way he wants. Therefore, the names of the actors are shown…

President Michel Aoun told his citizens, with all sincerity and frankness, years ago, that Lebanon was going to hell, and they did not believe him. Not because they didn’t trust him, but because they didn’t want to go to a place they have heard so much about. Later, the president said he “will…

The truth is that the forum was a rally or a festival. Mohammed Fahad al-Harthi has never taken on a role in the media that he didn’t excel at. The forum was a dazzling and remarkable display of Saudi Arabia’s capacity for organization and achievement when its officials take charge. The …

As crises and disasters storm through the region, the afflicted have found a steady helping hand in its immigrants. The community of around four million Turkish-German dual nationals was the first to help its kin. The approximately one million Syrians who had taken refuge in Germany amid the…

The “Fakhr El-Din” play by the Rahbani brothers begins with the scene of actor Roger Assaf sitting in a public place trying to listen to what is happening around him. A passer-by suspiciously asks him: “What are you doing here?” With his apparent naivety, he replies: “I am spying.” At a time…