World News Insights: Opinion Articles

It might be apt to characterize the contention between two popular schools of thought as one that stems from a divergence in how each identifies causes and interprets causality. One school understands causality through particular events and occurrences, without disregarding psychological,…

There wasn’t a hint of political rationality in Hezbollah deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem’s third televised speech since September 27. Indeed, it was an awkward attempt at promoting the idea that the party is still capable of waging this confrontation as it insists on keeping Lebanon trapped…

The future seems worrying, or rather catastrophic, to the Lebanese who have found themselves becoming "burdensome guests" in their own country. It is a real tragedy that over a million Lebanese have been displaced and uprooted within a few weeks following the Israeli military’s "advice" with an …

The main conclusion that can be drawn a year after the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation in the Gaza Envelope and the launch of the “support” war from Lebanon, is that this "flood" has drowned those behind it. Hamas has been reduced to Yahya Sinwar and his small entourage; Hezbollah has lost Sayyed Hassan…

In Tunis, Yasser Arafat used to gratefully look back on what he had presented to the Palestinian cause. Mohsen Ibrahim, the secretary-general of the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon, used to encourage him to reminisce about his time in Beirut. One day, Arafat asked: “Did we make Lebanon…

In 2015, Barack Obama submitted to interviews with three YouTube stars, one of whom was notable for eating cereal out of a bathtub. It was a moment that opened a window into the media landscape of the future, after the mainstream media as we have known it — while also making that future seem…

Israel is a country that worries its neighbors, and they are right to worry. It is the only nuclear power in the region, it does not abide by international law, and, in its wars with genocidal dimensions, Israel makes no noticeable effort to distinguish between combatants and civilians. With…

Accusations of betrayal and a barrage of insults have been hurled at anyone who cautioned Hamas, specifically Yahya Sinwar, since the war in Gaza began following the events of October 7th. Today, everyone is aware that we have lost our chance to salvage what could have been salvaged. Today, the…

An Israeli soldier, part of a force that infiltrated across the border, stirred controversy by planting his flag on a hill in the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras—despite Israel’s presence in Beirut’s skies having persisted for weeks. Before diving into the rhetoric that often dominates our region,…

It might be the first time the Iranian regime has found itself confronting so many complex and difficult questions since it was established in 1979. These wide-ranging questions pertain to everything from the nature of the regime and to its future, which is intrinsically linked to external factors-…

These days my two favorite book-shops in Paris and London are devoting a full shelf to books on or inspired by Hamas’s “Al-Aqsa Storm” October 7 raid on Israel. Some of these books offer various accounts of what happened on that day and could be classed as extended reportages of the kind news…

Iran finds itself between the anvil of war and the hammer of its accumulating crises. The nation's internal challenges are mounting, and if Iranian politicians fail to wake from their negligent slumber, the consequences will be catastrophic—not only for the regime but for the entire region. The…