World News Insights: Opinion Articles

When Donald Trump won his first presidency, it came as a surprise. We knew very little about him—his personality, ideas, or leadership style. In a closed seminar, one of his close associates said, “His strength is also his flaw; he has a strong personality, so beware of angering him—he might just…

In the most recently broadcast speech of new Hezbollah Secretary General, Sheikh Naim Qassem, and in Resistance Axis supporters’ comments on the ongoing catastrophe, there is a loneliness that induces pity but also induces fear. This loneliness is not just a matter of isolation, as their rhetoric…

The world has been living on the time of Donald Trump ever since the results of the US presidential elections were announced. We have never seen anything like this before. The world did not hold its breath when Russia handed the keys of the Kremlin to a mysterious man with a past in the KGB called…

Last Friday, when the US Justice Department presented details of a failed Iranian conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump before the presidential election, my initial, spontaneous reaction was: "What timing!" Yes, the timing of the announcement is politically explosive, especially…

The world’s highest Shiite Muslim authority, Ali al-Sistani, has sounded an alarm, which seems like the last warning before Iraq faces a critical turning point that neither the state nor its people may be able to withstand. These potential dangers have compelled Sistani to break his long…

“Think twice! No, think thrice before you put a word on paper!” This was the advice that the great Persian poet Muhammad Iqbal, a son of India, advised his disciples in the last century. “In using words let caution be your guide.” That thought found an echo in the writings of Sayyed Kazem Assar,…

The EU has joined the game of sending envoys to the Middle East, dispatching Austrian diplomat Christian Berger after naming him as its envoy to Syria. It seems, by sending him, that Europe is saying: "Why shouldn’t I have an envoy like the US and others?" Our region has received many…

"Civil war in Lebanon"... Is now on the lips of Lebanon’s politicians and journalists, and Arab and foreign diplomats are warning against it. This major and grave threat should not be taken lightly, though exaggeration that leads to panic should also be avoided. On the one hand, there are a few…

Since the Israeli war on Gaza following the October 7, 2023 operation carried out by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, "the day after" has been on everyone’s lips, whether in Gaza or now in Lebanon, after Israel launched its war against Hezbollah. Although this phrase has been repeated…

Israel’s war has significantly escalated, in terms of its geographic scope, targets, and firepower over the month. This escalation is open-ended, with Lebanon replacing Gaza as Israel’s priority. The war leaves us with the following options: First: The continuation of the war, which is the policy…

It would be absurd for any political commentator to ignore the US presidential elections, in which a very substantial number of voters have already cast their ballots through early voting, before the official election day on Tuesday. And after what we have seen in the Gaza Strip, it would be…

The divisions in our country are resilient, the reversion to a 50-50 split seemingly inevitable even amid plague and war and protest. Yet in those regions of America that officially have a professional commitment to debate — the realms of academic and journalistic argument — things are still mostly…