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With potential for de-escalation in the Ain El Helweh refugee camp becoming stronger as arrangements for a ceasefire proceed, giving mediators an opportunity to facilitate a temporary or permanent solution! These efforts have coincided with the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which…

In the sense in which the leaders of the American Revolution, and the nation and state that emerged from it, are referred to as "founding fathers," “founding mother” could be used to describe Mahsa Amini in the future. That is, if Iran manages to survive its Islamic Republic experiment in one piece…

The United Nations General Assembly in New York has begun amid notable absences this year, especially among the five countries that are members of the Security Council, with the leaders of France, Britain, China, and Russia absent, and only President Biden attending. Convened over a year into…

Millions of our Arab and Muslim brothers voiced their immense despair after the flood that hit Libya, and they rushed to help the victims and support the country. The one exception was the cacophonous voice of Moqtada al-Sadr, who did nothing but revel in the suffering of the victims and…

It has been exactly thirty years and three weeks since the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were signed, and the situation in Palestine, and the conditions of the Palestinians, are worse than ever. Indeed, parts of the West Bank are on the brink of turning…

With a bit of drowsiness and some fatigue. That is how extraordinary meetings are concluded. How wonderful it is for the world to be preoccupied with you! How it monitors your every move and your armored train. How journalists rush to come up with exaggerations and absurd scenarios. How…

Amid the hustle and bustle of the 2008 US presidential elections, former president Barack Obama hit back at criticism saying it suggested that his nation had been in "silly political season." Election season is often referred to as the "silly season" in the US. In the famous American media…

That we are all born with two eyes and one tongue suggests that looking and observing take precedence over speaking - that every time we speak, we should observe twice, and that we should observe twice before speaking once. Many in our region do not act on this premise in the slightest; as…

The summer of 2023 recorded the highest temperatures in the world, along with natural disasters the likes of which we have not witnessed before. It is true that fires and floods are natural occurring phenomena, but this summer they swept through new areas, and were distinguished by their size,…

The “tar baby” is the second of the Uncle Remus tales published in the US in 1881. In it the evil “Bre’er” fox conjures a doll made of tar and turpentine with which to entrap the “Bre’er Rabbit”, the more the victim tries to shake himself free the more entangled he becomes. Several recent events…

During a historic void in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu was afforded the opportunity to remain at the helm for longer than any other Israeli prime minister in history, even longer than those of its major figures, like the founder Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin, and the two generals, Yitzhak Rabin and…

As soon as Saudi Arabia announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States to establish an economic corridor linking India and Europe, in cooperation with the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, and Italy, we had two corridors in our region. One…