World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Vaccines can end pandemics. That’s why they are central to any plan to prepare for the next one. Developing countries are attuned to this need after many waited nearly a year for ample Covid-19 vaccine supplies as wealthy countries enjoyed an extended period of first dibs. Americans, for example…

Has the West woken up to the fact that Iran is a global problem rather than a regional problem limited to the Middle East? The international community’s misguided view of the Iranian project has led to this project being framed within the context of confessional competition between Sunnis and…

Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worried that the use of text would threaten traditional memory-based arts of rhetoric. In his “Dialogues,” arguing through the voice of Thamus, the Egyptian king of the gods, Plato claimed the use of this more modern technology would create …

The golden weeks are gone. Celebrations don’t last forever. They were beautiful and thrilling. We quarreled, argued and guessed right and wrong. Brilliant teams, not militias, engaged in this spotless war, which was fought with goals, not drones. It’s a war without coffins and armies. Boys…

The protests in Iran, now in their third month, are a historic battle pitting two powerful and irreconcilable forces: a predominantly young and modern population, proud of its 2,500-year-old civilization and desperate for change, versus an aging and isolated theocratic regime, committed to…

Whatever happens in the World Cup final this Sunday, Europe will remain the dominant power of global football. An Argentinean victory over France will not change the facts of economic globalization. The English Premier League alone usually turns over more money every season than the quadrennial…

After winning the Israeli premiership for the third time, Benjamin Netanyahu promised to “do everything necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.” He also said in an interview with Al Arabiya English with colleague Mohammad Alyehya that he would do so even without Washington’s…

As soon as the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 27) concluded, preparations for future climate summits were underway, as if the matter was a mere accumulation of conferences. Officials and negotiators, along with fans of conference tourism,…

Almost ten months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaching, everyone is wondering; where is this war taking us? Is there an end to this conflict that has impacted the entire world? Others are asking themselves whether history will repeat itself. In the nineteen-fifties, Fidel Castro,…

Morocco’s stunning performance in the World Cup, its progress to a semifinal game with France and the worldwide elation it has engendered captures a special moment for Moroccans and many others from the Arab world and beyond. This is not just your classic underdog story, a tale of global south…

The war that has been raging in the heart of Europe for months now is vicious and depressing. It brings back bitter memories of the world wars fought in the 20th century, and some fear that it could lead to a third world war, but these exaggerated expectations are understandable because they stem…

Is the world order heading for a tectonic shift? And, if yes, what will that shift be like? These are the questions that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz poses in an article for the American magazine Foreign Affairs, published almost immediately after his lightning visit to China. The word that…