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May God be kind on Abu Nuwas, who wrote the following verse in one of his most renowned poems: "You are astonished by my Illness?... It is my health that should astonish you!" It came to mind as it had become clear to me that the so-called "Mar Mikhael Agreement," which was signed in Mar Mikhael…

As infuriated as she is by President Biden’s stalwart support for Israel, Layla Elabed has not ruled out voting for him in November. A progressive Palestinian American community organizer in Dearborn, Mich., a majority Arab American city near Detroit, she doesn’t want to see Donald Trump back in…

Some believers who share Immanuel Kant’s manner of faith - that is, believing in religion within the confines of reason - argue that the Abrahamic experience is composed of two moments: in the first, Abraham is commanded to slaughter his son (Isaac in the Torah, and Ismael in the Quran), and offer…

I do not like pessimists, but I sometimes find that they have something worth pausing at. The diplomat said he was not optimistic about the future of both Europe and the world. He considered that Vladimir Putin’s approach to victory in Ukraine confirms the fall of a safety valve represented by…

Anyone following up on the news in our region will find a noticeable recurrence of the expression, “the next day.” For example, since the beginning of war in Gaza, the Palestinians, including Fatah and Hamas, as well as Israelis, Arabs, the United States, and European countries have been repeatedly…

We are back at the hypothetical press conference held by a senior US official after the conclusion of the American National Security Council meeting in which the US administration has announced that the last remaining US troops were pulled out of Iraq. In response to a journalist's question,…

Two years already! And how much longer? This is what comes to mind as the war in Ukraine enters its third year with no prospect of an end in sight. Because war is a matter of here-and-now one shouldn’t expect those who fight it to think of its aftermath. Belligerents who do so often end up…

Regardless of the polls showing a decline in popular support, and despite ongoing excavation efforts to dig up a body to run things after this war, particularly in Gaza, bets are on the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization once again. Both are organs of a single body that…

Covid numbers recently climbed again. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once again reported monthly death tolls in the thousands. Mask mandates are back in New York City’s public medical facilities and nursing homes. The presidential race has kicked into gear, and just as in 2020,…

In 1956, the stance of the US turned Israel’s military victory into a political defeat. Indeed, at the insistence of President Eisenhower and his administration, the countries that had launched the "Tripartite Aggression" against Egypt (Britain, France, and Israel) were made to suffer a humiliating…

For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been reiterating that Israel has no Palestinian partner it can make a deal with, and Western leaders, media institutions, and think-tanks found his claim compelling. Today, after an international movement was precipitated by Saudi Arabia…

In New York on Friday, a State Supreme Court judge, Arthur Engoron, ordered Donald Trump and his company to pay the staggering sum of $355 million for lying, over and over, with stunning audacity about the value of his assets. The ruling comes just weeks after a jury, in a defamation case brought…