World News Insights: Opinion Articles

A criminal plot from hell has taken hold of Lebanon. Recently, all sides have sought to politically exploit the rising number of refugees arriving in Lebanon. In addition to doing nothing to address the influx, the government is also turning a blind eye to the alarming promotion of racism. Hassan…

President Vladimir V. Putin called the criminal cases against Donald J. Trump good for Russia and an indication of the American system’s “rottenness,” in wide-ranging remarks Tuesday that also touched on the war in Ukraine and Elon Musk. The Russian leader for years has demonstrated an ability…

It has been five years since the World Health Organization announced its new vision for the Eastern Mediterranean. The World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean launched this five-year vision for the region in October 2018. It was an ambitious call to action and…

Afghanistan was not always Afghan, not in the lousy sense that is now associated with the term. Several factors, some domestic and some external, paved the way for this state of affairs. But the most consequential of them was the military coup. That was what let the genie out of the bottle, opening…

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 The Fez Initiative announced by King Fahd in 1981 was rejected and withdrawn.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…