Saad Hariri’s resignation highlights Hezbollah’s malignant role in Lebanon
What a difference a few months make. Back in the summer when I mentioned having second thoughts about visiting Beirut, Prime Minister Saad Hariri...
When will the Yemeni war end?
Many have been asking, either for good reasons or due to ill intentions, when the war in Yemen will end, particularly ever since the...
The weaponization of everything Globalization's dark side
The element of surprise in international relations appears more frequent and more ferocious. Are these shocks to be expected from a dangerously fragile political...
I was held in Iran for 13 months This is why I think Jason...
Everything that's been happening to Jason Rezaian and his family over the past 15 months feels familiar.
Jason Rezaian is a journalist. I'm also a...
Virus crisis to accelerate breakdown in Iran’s client states
As if losing their most famous general and facing the prospect of unending US sanctions wasn’t enough, there’s now another thing for the embattled...
BDS extremists are playing into their enemies’ hands
By the time Hurricane Harvey ended its destruction of the Gulf of Mexico and the Texas coast in August, 75 people had lost their...
COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates global inequality
As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) kills thousands and drags the global economy into a recession, it is also highlighting inequalities between and within countries....
Well done, America, you’ve crushed Daesh. Now what?
Of all the cities in the Middle East that have been flattened in the past five years, and the list is long, Raqqa has...
Governments cannot ignore mental health pandemic
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has transformed our world into a dystopian nightmare that keeps intensifying, with little clarity about the months ahead. Governments...
Trouble looms for developing countries as commodity revenues collapse
Slumping commodity prices pose a serious challenge to economic and political stability in developing economies across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
According...
