World News Insights: Opinion Articles

We are witnessing significant changes as a result of the ongoing conflict between the two regional powers, Iran and Israel, which has been escalating since last October. We are in an advanced stage of the conflict, with both sides defending their positions and attempting to exploit the crisis to…

"Today he is the bravest, the wisest and the most popular leader of the Resistance Front." This is how the daily Kayhan spoke of guess who. Wrong guess. The daily's editorialists are notorious for their exaggerated praise of the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei. But this time it was not Khamenei…

The Palestinian struggle is at the forefront of the regional priorities agenda after a years-long absence that resulted from the need to put out the many other fires that have broken out. The Palestinian question has now become the most pressing and volatile concern in the region following Israel's…

Time and again, a pressing need to reaffirm the obvious reemerges: Israel is alarming the people of the region, and they should be alarmed, and not only for reasons tied to Palestinian rights and deterring settlement and the occupation of Arab territories. Added to all of that: First, it is a…

The events of the past week alone demonstrate that the past five decades have been absurd. Our region has seen nothing but blatant lies that cost lives, money, and the destruction of states and their social fabric, all in the name of empty slogans. These are the developments in question: Khalid…

When the conflict that tore former Yugoslavia apart broke out and everyone, near and far, found out that all the fault lines of "Balkanization" intersected in this Balkan state, we in the Arab and Islamic worlds witnessed the massacres of Srebrenica and Zepa, I was studying to obtain my master's…

Many expected missiles to rain down on Tel Aviv following the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and the many assassinations of Iran’s followers in Iraq and Lebanon. The Haniyeh assassination in particular "violated Iran's honor," as the secretary-general of…

Benjamin Netanyahu was not content with kidnapping Israel itself, Palestine, Lebanon, and perhaps Syria. He has decided to take the entire region hostage before finishing the Gaza war and drag it to the place it wants to avoid. No one following regional developments a year ago, and no experts in…

Benjamin Netanyahu fears the end of the war. He will be confronted with investigation committees and several questions about accountability and errors. For him, the issue is practically about life or death. The issue is more than just about Netanyahu clinging to office to avoid accountability. …

Increasingly frustrated, more Ukrainians appear to be opening up to the idea of a negotiated peace, even as they remain vague about what that means. Most Ukrainians still oppose ceding any territory to Russia, not even the Crimean peninsula that was seized by Russia 10 years ago, polls show. But…

In 2003, a British writer and journalist named Alan George published a book that was aptly titled "Syria: Neither Bread Nor Freedom." While some regimes provide their people bread without freedom and others safeguard freedom without providing bread, the regime George discusses in his book denies…

I shared a room with a Romanian, made Bosnian friends, discussed Hajj rites with a nice group from Cambodia, had selfie with celebrities and shared a tent with Pakistani, Mozambicans and South Africans. All this while having ice cream and chocolates, laughing, hugging and bonding. In that very…