Dr. Abdel Monem Said

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…