Suleiman Jawda

It seems to me that Europe has had enough of Donald Trump's foreign policy, and I see its response to Trump's call for European participation in securing the Strait of Hormuz as one reflection of its exasperation. Consider this: mere hours before their dispute over the strait erupted, the EU…

Benjamin Netanyahu’s persona bears an uncanny resemblance to Pahom, the protagonist of a short story by Leo Tolstoy set in Tsarist Russia. Like Tolstoy’s other works, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” is a timeless masterpiece that offers insights into human life even today. Consumed by greed,…

Four years have passed since the Russian–Ukrainian war began. Its protagonists could hardly have imagined it would last this long. Those who launched it in Russia believed it would be resolved in a matter of days, but days turned into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years. Although…

Every year, the controversy around the Nobel Prizes is centered in the same two categories: the Peace Prize and the Literature Prize. Never has there been a torrent of polemics about the award for medicine, for example, nor has there even been broad outrage about the recipient of the award in…

Europe wakes up to new apprehension tied to Russia every morning. Hardly a day passes without Russia disturbing the old continent. Their relationship began to deteriorate with the Russian-Ukrainian war. Since President Vladimir Putin launched his war on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Europe’s…

On this month of 2011, the so-called "Arab Spring" began in Tunisia. When Bashar al-Assad's regime fell this year in the same month, it seemed like this "spring" was returning or that a new edition had come to us. If we were to adopt the language of book editions and publishers, we could say that…

You could hardly find anyone anywhere in the world who isn't either contemptuous of the United States of America or furious at it. This anger or hatred isn't directed at the United States itself nor at its people. People hate the policies it has adopted for addressing countless crises and problems…

The EU has joined the game of sending envoys to the Middle East, dispatching Austrian diplomat Christian Berger after naming him as its envoy to Syria. It seems, by sending him, that Europe is saying: "Why shouldn’t I have an envoy like the US and others?" Our region has received many…

Wherever you look in this world in flames, you are struck by how desperately it needs a man like Anwar Sadat. The world does not need a man like Sadat because of his famously chic style, the trademark pipe in his mouth, and the dark skin tone that distinguished him, nor does it need him because he…

If someone leans on a stick while walking, he is described as needing others, and likewise if he leans on another person, he is seeking the help of others along the way. This exact meaning was present in the mind of the decision-maker in Washington, when he asked China to exert pressure…