Iran’s former chief justice, Ebrahim Raisi, begins his first term as the Islamic Republic’s president in a weak position although he has the support of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi returned to Baghdad from his recent visit to Washington with a pledge from US President Joe Biden to end “US combat missions” in Iraq and...
The honeymoon between Lebanese President Michel Aoun and newly designated Prime Minister Najib Mikati lasted only four days. Mikati was initially upbeat about his appointment and projected optimism over the...
World Food Programme director David Beasley has repeatedly called on the world’s billionaires to feed the world’s starving rather than pursuing self-promoting space projects. Beasley launched the first of several broadsides at...
The Tokyo Olympic Games are too big to fail but it remains to be seen whether the athletes or Covid will prevail. A second postponement or cancellation of the 2020...
With the award of Knight of France’s National Order of Merit, Raji Sourani became the most highly and widely decorated civilian in the Arab world. The knighthood, conferred by French...
In despair over the failure of entrenched politicians to form a government which would rescue Lebanon from economic collapse and ruin, numerous commentators have warned it is becoming a failed...
The West Bank town of Beita, south of Nablus, has become the latest icon in the 140-year history of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli colonalisation. Following the clashes between Palestinians...
President Joe Biden has swept away many of his predecessor’s more egregious decisions but has retained two dangerously damaging foreign policy initiatives: Donald Trump’s abandonment of the 2015 nuclear deal...
As Lebanon continued its tragic slide toward economic collapse, the World Bank reported the crisis could be among the world’s three worst since the middle of the 19th century. Since...
The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.