World News Insights: Opinion Articles

In his May 9 piece, Prince Turki al-Faisal presented a comprehensive overview of how Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman succeeded in repositioning the Kingdom. His read on the Kingdom’s approach opens many doors to reflecting Saudi Arabia’s strategy for managing the current crisis. Against the…

The Dutch-American political scientist Arend Lijphart developed what he called "consociational democracy," a democratic system in which the leaders of prominent social communities share power in order to ensure that no single group dominates the others. Accordingly, consociational democracy has…

In two important statements, US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio said that the battle of the Operation Epic Fury had ended and achieved its objectives. As for the developments that followed the ceasefire, President Donald Trump said that the Iranians “messed with us…

As Hezbollah escalates rhetorically and raises the stakes, there is a need to examine the wave of treason accusations and verbal escalation it has directed at the Lebanese presidency, the premiership, and the Maronite religious establishment. At first glance, this virulence seems a purely domestic…

The pains of the day gather in the night. The keeper of the seals sits alone. With exhaustion. With the mirror. With history. “Victory Day,” celebrations of Nazism’s defeat, were underwhelming. The attendance of foreign signatures was not befitting of Russia. He did not feel the powerful’s…

Millions have watched the videos of Iranian pilgrims being received in Madinah and saw how they were greeted warmly and presented with flowers as they arrived, one after the other, to perform the Hajj pilgrimage this year. They were at ease, in safety, and far from the fallout of the war that has…

Few observers were surprised by the local election results in Britain and Northern Ireland yesterday. Opinion polls had already shown that the ruling Labor Party was heading toward a painful defeat under its weak, opportunistic leadership that lacks substance, conviction, and charisma. Its…

The Israeli war on Lebanon has entered its third month. The “pretext” for this war was, of course, a response to Hezbollah’s strategy of “unity of arenas,” or “unity of tracks,” which the group pursued first in the name of solidarity with Gaza, and then in solidarity with Iran after the…

Since the American-Israeli war on Iran erupted on Feb. 28, discordant voices in our region and in Western media have grown louder, questioning Saudi Arabia’s position on a conflict the Kingdom had initially worked hard to prevent, and then made intensive efforts to stop and resolve diplomatically. …

For a long time, Lebanon was accused of being the pampered country in the midst of an Arab world defined by struggle and sacrifice. At best, it was treated as a nation of questionable belonging and suspect intentions. It therefore had to be stripped of its Arab identity, its rights, and its…

“Hezbollah” is struggling to impose a single narrative on the southern massacre, or a single interpretation of it, and views any dissenting opinion as “treason” or a “stabbing in the back of the sacrifices.” Its goal is to prevent its own community, which carried it for years, from saying what it…

Is the war between Iran and the US-Israel tandem over bar the shouting? Even a week ago, the question might have sounded fanciful as President Donald Trump was still threatening to wipe Iran off the map. Now, however, he is talking of “progress” towards a deal confirming what he and his aides…