World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Palestine is a word that resonates deeply in the conscience of every Arab and Muslim. It is a shared cause whose burdens and suffering displaced people we have carried for decades amid unprecedented global dithering and neglect regarding an issue of human right before being a political and…

The elites of the Iranian regime have succeeded in absorbing the first blow, averting a vacuum in decision-making. Their rapid absorption of the shock has enabled them to maintain control and brought hardliners who had long operated in the shadows, its most radical military and political figures,…

“Finish the job!” This is the advice given by those who want US bombing of Iran to be resumed until it achieves its goal. It comes from Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, prominent American commentators Mark Levin and Victor Davis Hanson, and…

It is natural that military and political analysis should dominate the current moment and occupy center stage in public discourse. Yet intellectual and ideological analysis of the crisis is equally necessary and deserves to stand alongside political analysis itself. This is precisely where many of…

The return of the displaced and refugees driven from their homes by the war remains central to discussions among Sudanese people, as one of the issues most closely tied to the war’s outcome and the prospects for national recovery. What inspires optimism is the noticeable acceleration in returns,…

Palestinians never obtained a political system with full sovereignty, authority, and capacity after the Arab League summit in Rabat that recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Instead, they had the so-called “regime of…

There has been a surge in arrests of criminals from the former regime, particularly pillars of its military forces and figures within its security apparatus. These arrests have been made on the basis of their involvement in vicious crimes: arbitrary arrests, torture, killings, forced disappearances…

In his May 9 piece, Prince Turki al-Faisal presented a comprehensive overview of how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman succeeded in repositioning the Kingdom. His read on the Kingdom’s approach opens many doors to reflecting Saudi Arabia’s strategy for managing the current crisis. Against the…

The Dutch-American political scientist Arend Lijphart developed what he called "consociational democracy," a democratic system in which the leaders of prominent social communities share power in order to ensure that no single group dominates the others. Accordingly, consociational democracy has…

In two important statements, US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio said that the battle of the Operation Epic Fury had ended and achieved its objectives. As for the developments that followed the ceasefire, President Donald Trump said that the Iranians “messed with us…

As Hezbollah escalates rhetorically and raises the stakes, there is a need to examine the wave of treason accusations and verbal escalation it has directed at the Lebanese presidency, the premiership, and the Maronite religious establishment. At first glance, this virulence seems a purely domestic…

The pains of the day gather in the night. The keeper of the seals sits alone. With exhaustion. With the mirror. With history. “Victory Day,” celebrations of Nazism’s defeat, were underwhelming. The attendance of foreign signatures was not befitting of Russia. He did not feel the powerful’s…