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Raising the Arab appetite for greater political and economic support for Lebanon is no easy task. Indeed, their list of disappointments is long: Lebanon’s chronically tenuous assertion of its sovereignty, the clientelist politics of many Lebanese elites, and its history of exploiting Arab aid to…

The US Envoy to Lebanon Ambassador Tom Barrack and his colleague, Morgan Ortagus, are expected soon in Lebanon for a visit that comes on the heels of significant developments on both the Syrian and Lebanese fronts. Their trip also comes in the wake of the United Nations’ announcement that the Gaza…

Only a few of Yasser Arafat’s ideas were sound. One example of these rare beneficial convictions is that winning over a substantial segment of the Israeli public opinion was crucial. Although the current state of affairs does not help us make it, this claim deserves to be reaffirmed once, twice,…

Restricting armament to the state constitutes the central challenge of the Arab world. It is not merely a security and political question; rather, it pertains to the very essence of modern statehood, whose defining function is the monopolization of the “legitimate use of violence” by its…

Its name is Eritrea. The grave is closer than bread. Death swifter than aid. The grave nearer than the homeland. The sky is stingy, the earth stingy. Its war is wars. Drought left rivers as corpses cracked with thirst. Trees had to die, birds had to migrate. Eritreans had to choose between dying…

For President Trump, the map of Ukraine on an easel in the Oval Office had an obvious message. Russia has taken a big chunk of territory in an eastern region known as the Donbas. That territory, shaded in red, was gone. Ukraine needed to make a deal to get peace, or it risked losing more. For…

The embezzlement of hundreds of millions of European agricultural funds in Greece is not an isolated incident, but rather a manifestation of a trend not limited to the EU or Greece in particular. It involved 400 million Euros in subsidies to support sustainable agriculture and land management,…

On the eve of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, the gravest existential threat facing the region and the Islamic world weighs more heavily on the conscience of the world than ever. It is the Zionist entity that continues its…

The positions of the Lebanese Communist Party and its leadership are not totally comprehensible. Their despair and rage are appropriate, be it due to the resumption of Lebanon's subjection to Israeli occupation or because of their solidarity with the civilian victims of the genocidal war in Gaza…

On October 10, as the committee that chooses this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, US President Donald Trump is expected to be in Transcaucasia to inaugurate work on a 166-kilometer-long railway line in one of the world’s most rugged terrains. The planned line is already dubbed the Trump…

It will not be easy for the Sudanese people to forget the pain of this war. It has touched nearly every household. Nearly every corner of the country has been ravaged, and the scars will remain etched in collective memory for a long time to come. Sudan will not be what it was before the war…

For decades, fear-mongering and conspiracy theories (that went so far they almost sparked a civil war) have been among key tools and tactics of Lebanon’s sectarian faction, especially in the face of attempts to curtail their influence. Nonetheless, the denial we see from Hezbollah, a party that…