World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Some in our region are more eager to coordinate and engage in dialogue than President Trump. For example, Netanyahu says that he has spoken with the president-elect three times since November 5, adding in a statement: “We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all aspects and the danger it poses,”…

When Xi Jinping held the first-ever talks in Beijing with a former president of Taiwan, seeking to press the island closer to unification, a bookish-looking official stood out for his ease around China’s leader. While others treated Xi with stiff formality, the official, Wang Huning, spoke…

Three documents offer the only window that grants us a glimpse into what the Middle East policy of President-elect Donald Trump's administration could look like. "The Trump Peace Plan" (also known as the "Deal of the Century") for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the "Abraham Accords"…

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…