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Anxious times test both nations and men. Most countries tend to retreat before the storm, settling for attempts to limit the damage while accepting a future existence in a world shaped by others. Other countries choose to rise to their national and international responsibilities, participating in…

The homelessness crisis in Britain has worsened significantly, reaching record levels. Around 4,793 people are sleeping rough on the streets in England alone, while estimates by charities point to hundreds of thousands of people experiencing homelessness in its various forms. These are the latest…

The matter is settled. There is absolutely no connection between the ancient Arab poet Di'bil al-Khuza'i, on the one hand, and Elon Musk and Sam Altman, on the other. That is what logic says, and the numbers confirm it. Di'bil was an Arab poet who lived during the Abbasid era in Iraq between 765…

In the fall of 1983, an Iranian-backed force carried out the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. The bombing caused enormous confusion within the Ronald Reagan administration and was seen as a major challenge to the president. He decided to withdraw US forces from Beirut. Would Washington…

It is often said that the leaders of Iran's revolutionary Islamic regime possess a tactical craft in their many negotiations: the craft of brinkmanship. That is, going out to the last rock on the last cliff face, standing there on one leg, and waiting for the adversary to give ground — the…

He said to his companion, as the two of them watched the Middle East unfold on the screen: I have a feeling the Iranian project in the region has entered a phase of decline — and perhaps the retreat is no longer gradual, as it was, but closer to a rupture. His companion asked: and your evidence?…

Although the US president has repeatedly vowed to destroy Iran, it was the recent remarks by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that triggered a sharper, more furious reaction from the Iranian leadership. Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a veteran negotiator and general, expressed…

The American writer Simon Sinek has a valuable book titled Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Among the telling stories Sinek recalls is that of the famous American leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with all the lessons it carries about leadership, inspiration, and…

Tehran shows intense concern for the geography of its influence — the near geography that abuts it in Iraq, and the far, which abuts Israel from Lebanon, in the south. Inside the national borders of the two countries, Iraq and Lebanon, Tehran sets its own frontier: one that overrides the idea of…

When do questions of mentalities and ideas begin — before shifts in reality, after them, or in step with them? Applied to Western cases in particular, we find Spengler, who published The Decline of the West (1913) after several years' work on it: his colleagues rejected the book, pointing to the…

As Antonio Guterres, the United Nation’ Secretary-General, will soon start clearing his desk and prepare for retirement, assessments of his tenure vary between “passable” and “mediocre”. There are those who appreciate his passionate defense of the Palestinians and critical stance on the Israel-US…

What sparked the wave of popular anger in Libya was the attempts to push through settlement projects, exploit the political division to sign and pass suspicious agreements, and bring them into effect. This amounts to tampering with a demographic makeup that has remained stable for thousands of…