World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday in Chicago before the echoes of former US President and current candidate Donald Trump’s “chat” with his new billionaire “friend,” X owner Elon Musk, go quiet (will they ever?). Under ordinary circumstances, the national convention of the…

All eyes are on the negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza. Despite the strenuous efforts, however, the picture does not seem rosy. The talks could falter as they had before, bringing us back to square one. Even if we assume that the negotiations will succeed, a compromise is reached…

Confined to a spare bedroom in his vacation home and fighting off bouts of coughing from Covid, President Biden was exhausted when he turned in for the night on Saturday, July 20. Whether he slept soundly or fitfully or not at all, people close to him said he took the long hours by himself to mull…

People are drawn to strong leaders. Such a leader can either polish the image of his nation or conceal its fragility. He can curb the ambitions of enemies or thwart their plots. His strength offers a sense of invincibility, allowing his people to feel secure and proud. A strong leader imposes…

Benevolence and honorable intentions have undoubtedly played an important role in driving students and legal professionals around the world to raise their voices against the genocide in Gaza. Such efforts, if they are fated to succeed, could correct some imbalances in our region and perhaps across…

At this stage, nothing happening anywhere in the Middle East is more important than the war in Gaza, its internal and regional developments, and the specter of a regional conflict between Israel and Iran. The positions of the world's major powers and their officials’ statements, the initiatives for…

Some have found both the timing and implications of US special envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein’s trip to Beirut obscure. The visit’s ambiguity, or the fact that it was not constructive, further complicates things in the region generally and in Lebanon particularly. Indeed, no scenario can be ruled…

Many had dismissed it as a costly indulgence for a nation facing economic hardship while some condemned it as a dangerous diversion from the deepest political crisis France faces since the 1950s. And, yet, the two-week’ long summer Olympics hosted by Paris is now universally lauded as a success in…

Traditional wisdom holds that the current war between Israel and Hamas over Gaza, which began ten months ago, will now escalate significantly after Israel confirmed that it had been behind the assassination of Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander of Hezbollah, near Beirut. The day after Shukr's…

For months, the Middle East has been teetering on the brink of full-scale conflict. None of us can know precisely how close we are to falling into the abyss of all-out war. But everyone recognizes that this is a critical moment for the stability of the entire region. And that the risk of things…

A bit of guilt might be needed in all of our societies. Indeed, only such an emotion pushes us to reflect on the harm that the powerful among us have inflicted, and continue to inflict, upon the weak, and to reassess how our social structures have colluded and continue to collude with brutal,…

If I were a caricaturist, I would draw “Sinwar's cigarettes” being thrown down, in a devastated city, to “an angry crowd” discussing the “retaliation to the retaliation after the retaliation,” as the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier passes by the coast and a hand rises from the ground waving a…