World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The question of reviving the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (JCPOA) or the P6+1 Agreement (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, as well as the European Union) and Iran, has returned to the fore. Concluded on July 14, 2015, after years of negotiations, the…

The world could not function without crude oil and its associated products. For consumers, it delivers gasoline, diesel and a host of other transportation fuels, and enables the development of plastics, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and much more. For producers, the revenues derived from this…

Why is it that we disagree on when autumn begins when compared to the other three seasons? Is it because autumn has unique characteristics that are not found in other seasons? Or is it because, despite also being the season of plowing and sowing, autumn has unfairly been singled out as a metaphor…

The presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris has overwhelmed everything that has happened in the race to the White House over the past week. The debate in Philadelphia, "the cradle of liberty," had been highly anticipated. The Democratic…

When trust collapses, what can hold a nation together? A shared history? A common language? The unavoidable interconnections that come from living in close proximity? Or nothing at all? This question weighs heavily on American life. It hangs over the biggest issues of the day: our fractured…

American presidential debates have only changed the course of the race twice. The first time this happened was in the race between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, who outperformed his rival. The second it happened was when Joe Biden faltered in his debate with Donald Trump, compelling Biden to…

On Sunday, Israeli planes dropped leaflets over the Wazzani area in South Lebanon, demanding residents leave immediately under the pretext that Hezbollah was firing from the area. The most alarming part of the message was a phrase warning the population not to return “to this area until the end…

Yes, the question above is precise. It does not ask about the likelihood of a war breaking out, but of the war expanding, because Israel is waging a war on Lebanon, and it has been since the Gaza war began. The question now is: will it evolve to become a fully-fledged conflict? Israel has not…

The Arab Levant presents three models for addressing Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. There is the Lebanese model, which has entailed direct engagement since the day after the war began and rejecting any political solution to end it. However, this engagement has not had a tangible impact on Israel…

A scheme to steal public and private money, which is known in Baghdad as the Noor Zuhair heist, and the evaporation of bank deposits and dubious financial engineering allegedly that former governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon Riad Salameh has been accused of, pose a challenge to the political…

Is France going to have an extremist president in a few months’ time? If we believe the prophecy made by popular novelist Michel Houellebecq in his “Submission” in 2015 the answer must be yes. In the novel Houellebecq claimed that the French have only seven years that is until 2025 to prevent…

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) fact-finding report on Sudan issued a few days ago would not have caused all this commotion if it had merely documented the human rights violations and called for holding the perpetrators accountable. However, the report…