World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Prince Faisal bin Farhan visited the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, becoming the first Saudi foreign minister to do so in 30 years. He met President Volodymyr Zelensky at his presidential residence, as well as Zelensky’s chief of staff and foreign minister. Prince Faisal witnessed the signing of a…

We often hear or read an Arab man calling another “a man’s man” as a compliment. However, the flatterer may be overlooking the fact that his praise is insulting and demeaning to women. Indeed, man is supposed to represent the gender placed in opposition to the gender that woman represents. So, when…

She has no memory of the earthquake that broke her back and swallowed her daughters. Khaira Al Halbouni only knows what her husband told her afterward. In the middle of the night the building shook. He grabbed one daughter, Bisan, and their son, Ali. Take Mayas, their younger daughter, and run, he…

We are seeing contradictory indications regarding the trajectory region’s multiple crises. Some are positive and optimistic, while others are negative and pessimistic. This is strengthening ambivalence and complicating projections about the future. On the one hand, we have seen signs of Arab…

Our journalism professors taught us against getting overexcited and to instead keep the necessary distance between reading about developments and the people who made them. They warned us against falling under their spell. They were right. But the journalist, like any human being, cannot set…

After a year of brutal fighting, in which thousands of lives have been lost, civilian infrastructure destroyed and untold damage caused, the war has reached a stalemate. Neither side will countenance a negotiated settlement. On the battlefield, battered armies contest small strips of territory, at…

Some media outlets heavily reported the news of the “first Israeli raid” in Syria after the devastating earthquake, emphasizing civilian casualties. A few days ago, Reuters published an exclusive report about the raid last Sunday that presented the story differently. Several security and…

While some scholars have researched the psychological causes of suicide and others preoccupied themselves with genetic causes, Emile Durkheim sought to study it socially. This was his contribution to the discovery of the “continent” of suicide, which he made as he had been looking into the…

In his picaresque novel “Twenty Years After”, a sequel to “Three Musketeers”, French novelist Alexandre Dumas muses on the theme of “the benevolent despot” as a rampart against unbridled change that could lead to savage turbulences. In Arabic folklore 20 years represents a generation, a marking…

The consequences of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Eastern Türkiye and Northern Syria on Monday, February 6 are devastating. The International Rescue Committee’s staff on the ground are reporting of the immense human suffering and astounding levels of destruction. Not only has the…

With the revelations that the “new” leader of Al-Qaeda has taken refuge in Iran, it became clear that harboring terrorists is part of the Iranian regime’s modus operandi. Despite their doctrinal differences, the Iranian regime has always allied itself with Al-Qaeda, and there is an abundance of…

More than any people in the world today, the Syrians are in dire need for support and life improvement, not because of a lack of resources and capabilities, which are in fact many. The Syrians have something more important than resources. They are known for their strong eagerness to work, their…