Coronavirus cases have spiked in Iran, raising fears of a second wave of infections in the region’s epicentre and threatening to spread not only to the Eastern Arab World but...
Donald Trump is systematically destroying the post-World War II global order by withdrawing the US from international treaties, agreements, and organisations. His latest outrage is to postpone until September the...
It is fitting that the white US police officer charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter of an African-American in Minneapolis bears the French family name of Chauvin. The name has...
During the formation of Israel’s “national unity” coalition the sole issue under negotiation was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex illegal colonies in the occupied West Bank and Jordan...
The Covid-19 shared experience of Iran and Lebanon should serve as a warning to countries which have not prepared properly for a staged reopening of popular and public lockdown and...
For the first time in the 1400 year history of the Faith, Islam’s three holiest mosques in Makkah, Medina, and al-Quds have been closed for Ramadan and public prayers are set...
The use of punitive sanctions to exert “maximum pressure” on Iran to capitulate to Trump administration demands has failed miserably. Iran not only refuses to renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal...
Dissident writer George Packer has, once again, stirred controversy in the US by reverting to his contention that the US is a failed state. This, he argues in The Atlantic...
Daesh is exploiting the world’s preoccupation with the coronavirus to regroup, recoup, and mount frequent attacks in Iraq and Syria. Daesh’s leadership has announced a “Ramadan offensive” and urged fighters...
Scientists believe Covid-19 could be with us for long time. So far, the coronavirus has infected 3.5 million and killed more than 350,000 around the world. While data experts have...
The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.