World News Insights: Opinion Articles

We are five months into the war in Sudan between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces, and there is not even a glimmer of hope that opportunities are forthcoming to end this conflict deepening the Sudanese crisis. It has been five months, and this armed conflict has taken the…

In Ancient Greece, persuasion played a major role in the public sphere; by extension, thinking played a major role as well. Because the Greeks had established direct democracy and jury trials, there was a sharp demand for arguments and reasoning that could be of use to the citizens of Athens in the…

Even though the generation I belong to has not experienced any colonial or religious wars, the political and religious culture is filled with ideas of colonization, occupation, and division as if the Arab world is still under the oppression of colonial invaders who plunder the wealth of nations,…

The developments seen in the region over the past few days and weeks seem contradictory and incomprehensible, from the visit of the US Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security Amos Hochstein’s visit to Lebanon, which coincided with the arrival of Iranian…

Students of political science trace the concept of “sovereignty” back to a Frenchman by the name of Jean Bodin. Bodin was himself a politician, as well as a thinker and jurist. He lived in the sixteenth century, before the “Social Contract” school of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques…

The president has the right to sleep at ease. What more do the people want? He threw himself into the fire to save them. Forget about the grudges of journalists and social media users. The interests of the opposition that only care about pouncing on the feats. Forget about poverty, unemployment and…

We are confronted with a unique case of French politics in Niger that could be a model of what Paris can offer in the Iranian nuclear file, in Lebanon and its presidential impasse or how to deal with the terrorist Hezbollah group. It’s unique not because it’s special, but because it is…

The heated debate surrounding the selection of a replacement for Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Union Commission responsible for climate policy and the EU’s Green Deal, underscores the central place climate secured for itself in the international political arena…

Last week, Algeria presented a political initiative to resolve the crisis in Niger, after the political, and even military dust of this crisis spread to the rest of West Africa. Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf visited Ghana, Nigeria, and Benin, before holding a press conference to announce…

Dreaming of freedom in his prison cell in Chateau d’If, Edmond Dantes the hero of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel “The Count of Montecristo” dreams of the nearby port of Marseilles as a haven of peace and freedom. Two centuries later, Dantes might have revised his dream as France’s second largest city…

Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan’s departure, after five months of war, has set many developments in motion. It has opened the floodgates of analysis and interpretation. Many questions about his departure from the Army Command headquarters persist, including those about how he left to the…

No one can believe the claim that Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush decided to meet her Israeli counterpart in Rome by herself, without coordinating with the leaders of the country. The “Rome meeting” was not an “individual initiative” made because of her “lack of diplomatic experience.” …