Amr el-Shobaki

The Sydney attack that targeted Jewish Australian citizens that everyone condemned, Arabs and non-Arabs, Eastern and Western alike, and was denounced even by the staunchest supporters of the Palestinian cause because it assaulted civilian citizens solely because of their Jewish faith, after a…

The collapse of the Assad regime raised many questions on the Arab world and beyond. Conspiracy theories have been dug up to explain the speed of this collapse, but the sequence of events, the conditions of the regime, the opposition’s popularity, and the regional support it received all made clear…

Wars have erupted in several Middle Eastern countries, and Israel has gotten involved in all of them. It took on Hezbollah in Lebanon, eliminated most of its leaders, and dismantled most, though not all, of its military capabilities. Hezbollah remains at the center of controversy, both inside…

Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem declared his opposition to disarming the party. “We will not allow anyone to disarm Hezbollah or the resistance. The idea of disarmament must be removed from the dictionary,” adding that these weapons had liberated the country and protected its…