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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…

On Monday, September 11, 2023, The American nation and the world marked the 22nd anniversary of the largest terrorist attack in modern history, remembering the more than 3,000 people who lost their lives that day. As we remember victims of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, it is an…

This G20 Summit was not like those that had preceded it. The New Delhi Summit seemed to encapsulate the current state of the world, reflecting geopolitical shifts and global polarization. Washington seemed to have dialed down its pretensions to "moral superiority,” behaving less arrogantly and…

Libya’s southern border has become a site of extreme tension. The developments in Sudan, the military coup in Niger and before it Chad, and the conflict with the opposition, have exacerbated the already chaotic situation in this region that had already been infiltrated by wanton armed militias…

The features of the future of the world are not drawn in the corridors of the United Nations headquarters in New York. They are drawn on other tables... the table of the Group of Seven industrialized countries... the BRICS, and before that at the G20 summit. The leaders of the most powerful…

When the Ottoman Sultanate collapsed at the end of the First World War, the Arab Levant had two options: either accept the nation states that the British and French mandates come to us with, or try to build a state that encompasses all the communities and peoples of the region, such that the link,…

In his inaugural address at the G20 Summit in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said "The world has a huge crisis of trust. War has made this trust deficit deeper. If we can defeat Covid, we can also conquer this mutual trust crisis." This statement was made at a crucial summit that…

We find ourselves in between two offensives. The first was launched by Moscow, which called it a “special military operation,” on February 24, 2022. At that time, the Kremlin had not declared the limits of its invasion, but having gone deep into Ukraine, reaching the outskirts of the capital, it…

In a few days, the Sudanese war will have begun five months, and we are still busy quarreling, which is what led us to the wretched situation we now find ourselves in. Each party claims that the other is to blame, and all factions remain embroiled in debates over who fired the first shot. Divisions…