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The first edition of the Lebanese civil war ended in 1990, after the Syrian army entered the Baabda Palace and ministry of defense, with General Michel Aoun, the country’s prime minister at the time, fleeing to the French Embassy. February 14, the day Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was…

How hard it is to write about an earthquake! It is impossible for language to express the extent of the tragedy. No words are enough. All the flowers of the world cannot appease the gushing river of funerals and the masses of the betrayed. How ugly is the smell of deceit! If the betrayal…

The most recent earthquake in Türkiye (and the northern part of Syria) is one of the most devastating natural disasters ever. The earthquake struck 10 provinces in south/southeast Anatolia which is home to around 13-14 million. As of 11 February, the number of people who perished is over 20.000…

The girl with sad eyes must be around 10 or 12 years old. She hardly moves as she stares into the camera phone. Whenever she does move, her gestures are slow and sluggish. The man who is filming the video spots her and cries out in astonished delight. “There’s someone here! There’s someone here!…

From Washington’s point of view, its adversaries appear weak and this is the moment to be more aggressive, from Asia to Ukraine to Iran. The strange dispute about the Chinese spy balloon is the latest example. It is worth noting that Beijing issued a statement of regret about the balloon entering…

There can be no doubt that the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria last week was tragic. Its effects will remain in the memory and minds of the victims’ families, those who were affected, and anyone with a conscience, be they from the region or not. Nonetheless, this tragedy is not the only one we…

Trans fat is a killer: Up to 500,000 people a year die worldwide from the consequences of eating it. Trans fat increases LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol, the compound that clogs arteries and causes heart attacks and deaths from heart disease. Most trans fat comes from artificial, industrially…

"If you reflect upon life and its variations, you realize that death is just a kind of killing, whenever the times produce a stick Man wraps around it a blade" These two verses, along with many other verses in Al-Mutanabbi’s poetic repertoire, amount to contemplation into humanity and the…

Since 2019 when the Syrian tragedy appeared to have reached its denouement a succession of erroneous analyses, mainly by the powers involved, has prevented the development of a strategy to restore the war-torn nation to a semblance of normality. The first error was the belief that the war had ended…

Illegal migration is a global challenge that has grown in scale for a number of reasons. At the top of the list, of course, are the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic and the negative implications it has had for various parts of the world, albeit to different degrees decided by the extent to…

In the third and final essay of his small book ‘The Genealogy of Morals’ (1887), Friedrich Nietzsche deals with what he called the “ascetic ideal,” which is embodied in priests and is most perfectly manifested in saints. Indeed, priests volunteer to inflict pain on themselves through solitude,…

The uprising of January 25, 2011 presented Egypt with few opportunities and many threats. Twelve years on, Egypt has managed to avoid the worst of the dangers posed by this so-called spring but failed to seize the opportunities, ending up in a similar position to that which it had been in before…