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6 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Mustafa Fahs |Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri
Some are preempting US President Donald Trump’s expected visit to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf next month by discussing the promised three trillion dollars, suggesting it should be conditional upon achieving political deals – ranging from Gaza to a Palestinian state, to Yemen and Iran. First, these are business deals, including civil, military, and investment projects – not political trade-offs.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Since October 7, 2023, and in the aftermath of war in Gaza and Lebanon, Iranian-Israeli skirmishes, and the much-touted but ultimately hollow talk of "unified fronts", a new dynamic has emerged. One I would call "converging tracks". Anyone observing the region today will detect a new common thread stretching from Iran to Lebanon, passing through Gaza, Yemen, and Iraq: disarmament. Or, more precisely, the convergence of disarmament trajectories.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Ghassan Charbel
We often read two histories in history books, though one could, for a brief time, eclipse the other. One is the history of wars, which is studded with events like the conquests of Hannibal and Alexander, the Babylonian captivity, the Hundred Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, and the two World Wars... The other is that of achievements, both material and immaterial alike, in production, trade, institutions, and transportation.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Jeanna Smialek |Nabil Amr |Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
European Union officials are taking a two-part approach to President Trump’s unfolding trade war, offering to slash tariffs on American-made cars and industrial products even as they prepare to retaliate imminently with wide-ranging levies. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU’s executive branch, said on Monday that the 27-nation bloc would be willing to employ a “zero-for-zero” approach on products including cars, eliminating tariffs on the goods if the United States did the same.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Nabil Amr |Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Sam Menassa
Since Israel, and us with it, began to be plagued by the meteoric rise of Benjamin Netanyahu, there has been a consensus around his status as the king of Israel. This is a title that even the state’s founders and its historic leaders were never given. Netanyahu has broken every record in terms of longevity at the top. He holds the record for the longest tenure as prime minister in Israeli history.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel
In the writing genre that falls into the “What if?” category, the author presumes the occurrence of hypothetical past events that never happened, and then infers the implications. This is not a futile literary exercise. These texts point to what had, to this or that degree, once been real possibilities, and readers take two things away from these possibilities. First, those non-materialized events underscore the responsibility of those who steered history in the direction it ultimately went in.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel |Ross Douthat
For the past twenty days, US forces have been heavily bombing Houthi missile systems, drones, air defenses, weapons depots, command centers, training sites, and the homes of militia leaders across several provinces, including Sanaa. If the operations continue with this level of focus and eliminate the remaining Houthi military capabilities, will that end their existence? And what happens next?
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Hezbollah is not with us... It is stuck in the pre-October 7, 2023 era! That impression stands out from the televised rhetoric of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Eyad Abu Shakra
President Ahmad Al-Sharaa prudently defused a dangerous crisis in a matter of days- a crisis that posed a dramatic threat to the country. Indeed, the powerful winds of incitement and misinformation could have turned the sparks of what happened in the coastal regions into a massive fire. Bloodshed, killing, and acts of vengeance cannot be taken lightly, even when there is only a single victim, let alone dozens or hundreds.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Nabil Amr |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Eyad Abu Shakra |Hazem Saghieh
President Mahmoud Abbas surprised the Palestinian people with his announcement of what he called reform measures taken in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Fatah movement. In the PLO, he promised to appoint a deputy president. In Fatah- and this is what really matters- he announced a general amnesty, allowing for the reinstatement of members who had been dismissed, albeit without confirming whether senior figures would return to their previous positions.
