World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Two amending annexes to the two gas exploration and production agreements in Lebanese waters were signed over the past month, Qatar Energy entered a partnership with the French company TotalEnergies and the Italian petroleum company Eni. A mere few hundred meters away from the place where the…

In 1919, British economist John Maynard Keynes took a stand that was both brave and wise. A member of the British delegation in Versailles, he abhorred the concessions imposed on Germany by the Allies and the scale of the compensation - the burdens of which would fall on innocent German civilians -…

Important issues may occasionally slip between the fingers of the journalist and the opportunity to reclaim them may be lost forever. They may be lost for several reasons, such as conditions that were never met, the constraints of working at the office, the political circumstances and the reticence…

After months of indecision, hand-wringing and uncertainty, Germany last week committed to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The delay was a measure of the decision’s significance. For a country long wary of active military involvement in conflicts, the release of its most advanced war machine for…

We are facing two international cases that show a shocking and frightening lack of seriousness and disrespect for international laws and regulations, and confirm that the world is changing and is even sliding into dangerous crises, from Asia to Europe and even the United States. The first case…

A recent international report placed Lebanon among top countries that have made progress in switching to solar energy to produce electricity, by increasing capacity exponentially within three years. Some considered this an international recognition of a great national success, overlooking the fact…

Writing for ‘Egypt Today,’ Egyptian sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim claims that Egypt, the poorest country in the Arab world besides Yemen and Sudan, is currently home to 10 million refugees, 5 million from Sudan, 3 million from Syria, 1 million from Iraq, and half a million from Palestine. He…

The alien invasion has begun. Some experts say that when artificial intelligence takes off, it’s going to be like Martians landing on the National Mall. So far, our mind children, as the roboticist Hans Moravec called our artificially intelligent offspring, are in the toddler phase, as we ooh…

The Iranians have refocused their narrative on the Kurdish opposition, accusing it of collaborating with Iran’s enemies and plotting against the Islamic regime. In fact, government media has accused the opposition in Iraqi Kurdistan of being implicated, by order of a foreign security apparatus, in…

What does an autocrat do when his support base is shaken by popular protests? The standard answer is: he tries to reassure supporters by increasing their privileges, thus giving them a bigger stake in the preservation of the status quo. This is what Islamic Republic’s “Supreme Guide”…

Many commentators from across the globe have posed this question in different forms. The majority considered it “a political signing” aimed at enhancing Saudi Arabia’s reputation” rather than a sports deal. Assuming we accept this argument, a follow-up question becomes important. Clean it of what? …

Dada is not a word used to coddle children. It is something else born in “Cabaret Voltaire” in Zurich in 1916. Lenin resided and planned his revolution in the same alley, just a few meters away, James Joyce wrote ‘Ulysses.’ With the First World War raging at the time, European artists were…