Sunday, April 13th, 1975, was a fateful day for Lebanon. I remember it well. My husband, 5-year old daughter, and I were returning home from a lunch party at the...
The Nobel Prize Committee has challenged our era of “fake news” propagated by radical-right radio and television channels and social media by awarding this year’s coveted Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and...
Following Israel’s 11-day May blitz on besieged and blockaded Gaza, Egypt and Qatar each pledged to invest $500m in the reconstruction of the strip and have separately received at least...
Iraqis are set to go to the polls on Sunday to elect representatives for the 329-member national assembly. The election was initially scheduled for June but postponed at the request of...
The Doha Agreement, reached by the Trump administration and the Taliban, led to the collapse of both the Afghan government and the Afghan army and security forces. It is significant...
US President Joe Biden’s job approval rating has fallen dramatically in two months. According to a Pew research poll only 44 per cent of adults approve of his performance while...
The gradual US disengagement from this region in favour of a pivot toward Asia has launched a process of reconciliation among countries which have been estranged by competition and rivalries....
Palestinian icons Muna and Mohammed al-Kurd are among leaders, artists, and personalities on Time Magazine’s annual list of 100 most-influential people in the world. Born on May 15th, 1998, the...
In anticipation of the resumption of the Vienna talks on rescuing the 2015 agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief, the new hardline government in Tehran has...
Defending the Taliban’s appointment of an all male caretaker cabinet, the movement’s spokesman Zikrullah Hashemi told Tolo news, «A woman can›t be a minister, «It›s like you put something on her neck that she...
The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.