World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Political initiatives gain their importance from three factors. First, their content. Second, their timing. And third, the parties’ serious adherence and execution. These factors were available in the recent Saudi initiative, when the Kingdom appointed an ambassador to the State of Palestine,…

Afghanistan, a land with unique ethnic and geopolitical complications and a unique geography, has spent two dangerous and sensitive years under the rule of Taliban. Two years ago, on August 15, 2021, with the collusion of President Ashraf Ghani’s government with the United States, and betrayal…

At a time when Europe as a whole looks stagnant relative to the United States, Britain has joined Italy as the continent’s sickest patient: its living standards falling well behind its neighbors, its economy stuck in a 15-year torpor, and its public services, including the vaunted National Health…

The third anniversary of the Beirut port blast was uneventful and failed to rise to the occasion. This was evident in both the turnout and the speeches and testimonies that were delivered. Most of them were mundane and monotonous, rehashing the same talking points, providing an assessment of the…

There have always been, all over the world, political and ideological forces that give the magical connotation of words precedence over their conceptual connotation. For example, instead of saying: “Twenty people seized a military site,” they say: “The masses seized a military site,” and instead of…

My friend told me: “Don’t waste your time chasing after news of politicians or booking interviews with them. Their role in forging the future of the world is over. Governments, arsenals and fleets no longer have the final say. The future of the world is now being shaped in laboratories.” …

The shock of "hostage diplomacy" between the United States and Iran, involving a $6 billion disbursement from Washington to Tehran in exchange for the release of five US hostages, continue to echo, not only within our region but also across Europe and the United States. The debate is based on a…

A year ago, the tech industry’s prospects looked bleak. Google’s profit dropped. Shares of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, were in free fall. Business growth at Amazon had slowed to its lowest level in two decades. But what looked like an industrywide bust appears to have been more of a…

Claiming that war has its benefits is indecent, especially as it rages on. Indeed, dozens of Sudanese fighting on both sides, and scores of peaceful civilians on both sides, are dying on a daily basis. Every morning, the people count the number of steps that Sudan is taking backward, as its…

Is the Sahel region in West Africa becoming a new hub for international terrorism, as the badlands of Afghanistan were almost three decades ago? Last week, the question forced its way into global policymakers' circles with the military coup in Niamey, the capital of Niger, an impoverished state…

In the half century of modern presidential primaries, no candidate who led his or her nearest rival by at least 20 points at this stage has ever lost a party nomination. Today, Donald J. Trump’s lead over Ron DeSantis is nearly twice as large: 37 points, according to a New York Times/Siena…

In a normal country, an official like Riad Salameh, whom "The Economist" has labeled "the worst central bank governor in the world," would not have ended his tenure as Lebanon's Central Bank governor to the cheers of associates, who met him in the back door. Salameh, whom the French and German…