World News Insights: Opinion Articles

British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has come under fire because of her recent comments about the failure of multiculturalism in Britain. Even the leader of her party, Rishi Sunak, has distanced himself from her remarks. One notable criticism amid this campaign was made by Dr. Shola Mos…

Collective peace processes between Arab states and Israel have failed. The Madrid Conference of 1991 had but limited impact. The Fez Initiative announced by King Fahd in 1981 was rejected and withdrawn. The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative of King Abdullah was also rebuffed by Israel. Jared Kushner’s …

American research centers and think tanks are active in examining future trends, especially the defense strategy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This comes in the wake of the interview with the Saudi Crown Prince, during which he clearly revived the issue of sovereignty, security, and defense, and…

Rarely have global politics seen changes and shifts like those that have occurred since the war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, which was the first of its kind in Europe after World War Two. It was then followed by Russia's invasion of the Crimean Peninsula, and finally, the ongoing Ukrainian…

Our memories tend sometimes to arrange events out of chronological order. As a result, many in the Arab Levant feel like the October War (the fiftieth anniversary of which will be celebrated in the next few days) is further back than the June War. And this is the case although the latter broke out…

Amin Maalouf’s soul carries many wounds. He is Lebanese. The son of an unstable country, which was the product of a marriage between small nations and conflicting views. He was born on the shores of the Mediterranean to a diverse and cultured family. From his father, Rushdy, he inherited the…

A recent report by Iran International and Semafor revealed how Iran, through a group of hired pro-Tehran experts, has infiltrated policy making circles in the United States. The experts are second generation Iranians living in the West. They managed to reach prestigious positions before joining…

Arab Eco-Futures was the topic of my speech at the opening of Climate Future Week, organized by Museum of the Future in Dubai, in association with Fiker Institute. Main theme of my talk was that the future of the environment is determined by sound management of natural resources. This requires not…

In the last few days, the mediascape of Iran and the political atmosphere in Washington DC has been filled with news and speculations around the joint investigation recently published by Semafor and Iran International about a group called ‘Iran Experts Initiative’ (IEI) which is said to be an…

Entire continents are being reshaped and redrawn, with the groans of their peoples’ pains and their trembling with fear. Shifting global conflicts are being fought in several regions across the globe. Arsenals have diversified and involved a wide variety of belligerents and political leaders, as…

By now anyone interested in international politics knows who the oligarchs are. They are super-rich individuals who, by taking advantage of special political circumstances, have amassed big fortunes, often undeservedly, as a trampoline for political influence. The breed is most visible in post…

In parallel with its vicious armed conflict, another war is being fought over the rubble in Sudan. The flames of this other war also refuse to die down, rather than stop adding to the flames of the conflict. It is true that an array of factors, domestic and external, are perpetuating the conflict…