World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Protecting the environment begins with the rational management of natural resources. Outside this framework, treatments are circumstantial and target symptoms only, without addressing the root of the problem. Water management begins with enhancing efficiency, putting an end to waste and preventing…

President Michel Aoun told his citizens, with all sincerity and frankness, years ago, that Lebanon was going to hell, and they did not believe him. Not because they didn’t trust him, but because they didn’t want to go to a place they have heard so much about. Later, the president said he “will…

Imagine yourself, if you can, in the months before the Covid-19 pandemic. Imagine being told then that a novel virus would emerge in China that would then spread around the world, infecting much of the global population, by some estimates killing more than 20 million people, and upending much of…

Lebanon’s currency continues to plummet. It is in freefall, and a dollar could well equate to one million Liras soon. Indeed, the central bank has lost its capacity to exert any control over the currency’s value, a harbinger of monstrously obscene deprivation and chaos as prices skyrocket. The…

In studying history predictions that didn’t happen are often as interesting as those that became real events. Remember the “clash of civilization” that was to pitch one part of mankind to another in a multilayered cultural, religious, economic and, yes, even racial war? Decades later we see that…

In the not-so-distant past, the Typical College Republican idolized Ronald Reagan, fretted about the national debt and read Edmund Burke. Political sophistication, to that person, implied belief in the status quo. For that bygone breed, an education at an elite institution was a moderating…

Things have to get worse before they get better…This could well be true for the Arab-Israeli conflict at this critical historical juncture. Anyone who thinks that the great people of Palestine will not overcome the Israelis is deluded. Though the Israelis are putting all of their animosity and…

Name a recurring Fox News segment, and there is a Republican congressional investigation for it: the origin of the coronavirus, the threat to our capital markets, supposed collaboration between social media companies and the Democratic Party. Some representatives have launched an investigation into…

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…