Dr. Abdel Monem Said

Thirty-six years have passed since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the formation of the Arab and international coalition that liberated it, in what came to be called the Second Gulf War - preceded by the first, when Iran and Iraq fought for eight years (1980-1988). The Third Gulf War came with the…

The events sweeping the Middle East these past days have run along two paths: a return to war, or a turn to negotiation - an effort, within the terms of a violated truce, to find a way out of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz that Iran has chosen to seize. Iran's claim runs not only along the…

In searching for the roots of the tragedies Arabs are now enduring amid the region's overlapping wars, attention turns again and again to the militias ravaging the area. Their leaders share distinctive traits that betray considerable brutality, cloaked in conduct whose religious basis is…

I ask the kind reader's indulgence to reuse the exact title I previously employed in this space on December 23, 2009. At that time, speaking of the "perplexity" of a superpower like the United States was considered a form of intellectual recklessness, especially given the well-known wealth of…

G7 meetings (between the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan) are no longer what they were, just as NATO did in the security and strategic spheres. The overarching problem is that the world has entered a period of militarization and violence. The “fifth Gaza war”…

How does one deal with a raging beast on a murderous rampage, slaughtering and destroying everything in sight? Either one kills or tames it. The same applies to states that use force in Nazi fashion, leaving rivals with no option but war, as was the case with Germany in World War II. It was…

I am writing this in the wake of the sucker punch Israel delivered in Doha, seeking to eliminate the leadership of Hamas. In the aftermath, we saw the arrival at a critical juncture leading us to a familiar position as efforts to reach a ceasefire intersected with broader questions around Palestine…