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On January 11, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called President Joseph Aoun to congratulate him on his election as President of Lebanon and to invite him to visit Saudi Arabia. Aoun welcomed the Saudi invitation, replying that Riyadh would be the first country he visits. Earlier, on…

In a striking sign of the Chinese economy’s stagnation, the central bank said on Friday that it had temporarily stopped buying government bonds. The central bank’s unexpected action is aimed at braking a recent shift by investors toward purchasing bonds while shunning riskier assets like stocks…

The past week was a turning point for Lebanon by all measures. Observers agree that this was no ordinary presidential election, and not only because it ended a longstanding presidential vacuum that reflected a systemic political crisis. The election of Army Commander General Joseph Aoun, who…

After Damascus, Beirut now celebrates a new era with the election of a president, a position that Hezbollah had obstructed, leaving the post vacant since October 2022. This new phase in Lebanon concludes fifty years of regional exploitation of this small country, the second smallest Arab state in…

Even as Israel continues, albeit at a lower rate than before, to commit crimes in Gaza, and Syrian territory is being subjected to Israeli strikes, while the Lebanese are waiting for the occupation of their territory in the south to end, interest in this subject has declined dramatically. It is not…

Arab-international pressure on Lebanese politicians, both those in government and the opposition, allowed for the election of a president after the seat had been vacant for 26 months. Through an Arab-international consensus, the opportunity presented by the shifts that swept the region,…

I was at the Damascus residence of Iraqi politician and publisher Fakhri Karim. A visitor, who appeared weighed down with disappointment, arrived. I tried to persuade him to return to journalism after a long break. My friends warned me that he was a difficult person to deal with. But I viewed him…

Last month, Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving. …

Two years into the conflict that has been raging in the country, the war in Sudan has suddenly caught the eye of Western media. In Britain, “The Times” called it the "forgotten war." Oh God! Now, it is too little too late. Indeed, According to international aid organizations, Only after 150,000…

As they prepare to leave office, some members of the Biden administration are penning op-eds and making speeches to advise the incoming Trump team on a range of issues. The gist of their message is simple: Do what we tried to do but failed! One such issue is the perennial headache that Tehran has…

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was among the first actors to engage with the shift in Syria positively. The country’s new circumstances were discussed during the GCC’s Kuwait Summit on the first of December. The Summit’s Final Statement stressed the need to respect Syria’s sovereignty,…

Circumstances of history beyond the scope of this column have suppressed Syrian patriotism and placed the term between scare marks. The Baath’s notorious lexicon rendered Syria, “the beating heart of Arabism," nothing more than a “qutr” (segment). "More” and “less” were made interchangeable, which…