World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Millions of our Arab and Muslim brothers voiced their immense despair after the flood that hit Libya, and they rushed to help the victims and support the country. The one exception was the cacophonous voice of Moqtada al-Sadr, who did nothing but revel in the suffering of the victims and…

It has been exactly thirty years and three weeks since the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) were signed, and the situation in Palestine, and the conditions of the Palestinians, are worse than ever. Indeed, parts of the West Bank are on the brink of turning…

With a bit of drowsiness and some fatigue. That is how extraordinary meetings are concluded. How wonderful it is for the world to be preoccupied with you! How it monitors your every move and your armored train. How journalists rush to come up with exaggerations and absurd scenarios. How…

Amid the hustle and bustle of the 2008 US presidential elections, former president Barack Obama hit back at criticism saying it suggested that his nation had been in "silly political season." Election season is often referred to as the "silly season" in the US. In the famous American media…

That we are all born with two eyes and one tongue suggests that looking and observing take precedence over speaking - that every time we speak, we should observe twice, and that we should observe twice before speaking once. Many in our region do not act on this premise in the slightest; as…

The summer of 2023 recorded the highest temperatures in the world, along with natural disasters the likes of which we have not witnessed before. It is true that fires and floods are natural occurring phenomena, but this summer they swept through new areas, and were distinguished by their size,…

The “tar baby” is the second of the Uncle Remus tales published in the US in 1881. In it the evil “Bre’er” fox conjures a doll made of tar and turpentine with which to entrap the “Bre’er Rabbit”, the more the victim tries to shake himself free the more entangled he becomes. Several recent events…

During a historic void in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu was afforded the opportunity to remain at the helm for longer than any other Israeli prime minister in history, even longer than those of its major figures, like the founder Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin, and the two generals, Yitzhak Rabin and…

As soon as Saudi Arabia announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States to establish an economic corridor linking India and Europe, in cooperation with the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, and Italy, we had two corridors in our region. One…

Some phenomena and events cannot be interpreted in themselves, not in as much as they can through what precedes them, and sometimes what succeeds them. The Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Accords, which was signed on this day thirty years ago, is one of them. Those who find fault in Arafat and his…

Liberalism is under siege. It is not just a problem for America’s Democratic Party, which once again may face either losing an election to Donald Trump or claiming victory with a bare majority. Around the world, the entire outlook of political liberalism — with its commitments to limited government…

Aside from the late renowned Saudi Minister and literary figure Ghazi al-Gosaibi, I had another particularly close friend, Yousef al-Shirawi, the former Bahraini Minister of Development and Industry, who has also passed away. Al-Shirawi used to emphasize to us that, “India will never cease to…