World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Arabic literature has lost a cultural icon with the passing of Prince Badr bin Abdulmohsen bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, after an artistic journey that went on for five decades, and the Kingdom has lost its "word engineer" and one of its most prominent and pioneering creatives. It is true that great art…

Despite the government and the party leadership's haughty denials, the wholesale defeat of the ruling Conservative Party at the local elections in England was predictable. All the opinion polls conducted over the past few months, without exception, predicted that the Conservatives would suffer…

The World Economic Forum held in Riyadh last week strengthened the momentum of the ongoing negotiations. Its speakers could be heard over the sounds of the weapons fired in Gaza, and the white smoke rising from Riyadh overshadowed the black smoke over Tel Aviv. A ceasefire that leads to the release…

Benjamin Netanyahu knows the story. The silence of the artillery will be more powerful than their sound. He will stand naked before the arrows fired from all windows. They will have no mercy. The snakes will be set loose to bite him. They are the snakes of the opposition, partners in his…

Fires burning in the mind today compete with the fire that Israel has lit over Gaza’s land and in its inhabitants' lives. That began years before this war, but it found its feast in this war, as disasters always feed on disasters. “The white man" is a theme of the fire we are referring to. …

The mayoral and council elections in England and Wales ended last Thursday, and the results aligned with pollsters’ projections that the ruling Conservative Party would suffer a significant defeat. Quickly and confidently, the opposition Labour Party climbed over the Conservatives’ shoulders and…

Of the four criminal cases that Donald Trump is facing, the one unfolding in Manhattan is generally considered the weakest. Its legal foundation is complex. Its key witness is a felon. Its details are the sort of stuff that the tabloids splash across their front pages. Worst of all, it doesn’t…

Joe Biden had to make an appearance in order to justify what is prohibited by international norms: the storming of a university campus. This was not about a public demonstration in London or Paris. The university was in America. These institutions took the United States to the forefront of…

As the first rumblings of war are heard from Europe the editor of a major American newspaper decides to send a reporter to the old continent to see what is going on. He wants “our best and brightest” for the job and finds it in John Jones arousing the jealousy of older and more experienced…

The plan to suppress students at American universities and paint them as "anti-Semitic" had been almost fully developed before they began protesting against the Gaza massacres. Israel has been preparing this plan for a long time, and it never lost sight of these crucial sites that cultivate opinion…

The concept of "Global South" (as opposed to the "Global North") gained another boost in popularity with the war on Gaza. Language often tries its best to keep up with the split that divides our world. Initially, it was said that we are split into East and West, a binary that remained in usage…

The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and the United States have announced they are close to putting the "final touches" on a long-awaited bilateral security agreement. It is certainly important for both countries and will doubtlessly have multi-faceted implications for the region. At the World…