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3 weeks ago | 
theliberum.com | Robert M. Cutler |Ahmad Ghosn |Paul Cliteur |Rafael Baroch
April 1, 2025 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Europe | Featured, UnderstandingDespite the finalisation of a draft peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia on 13 March 2025, the formal conclusion of hostilities remains elusive. Entitled the "Agreement on Peace and Interstate Normalisation", the text has garnered broad international support, yet behind the apparent consensus lies a complex array of structural and legal impediments. By Robert M.
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1 month ago | 
theliberum.com | Ahmad Ghosn |Adriana Lebbos |Arthur Blok |Paul Cliteur
Image credits: Alawite Syrians fleeing into Lebanon at Nahr el Kabir. Photo courtesy Mohamed Azakir. March 12, 2025 | Lebanon, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey | Featured, UnderstandingHay'at Tahrir al-Sham and its allies shocked the world by overthrowing the Syrian regime in eleven days last year. This week, they overthrew themselves in eleven hours when carrying out their ethnic cleansing against the Alawite sect, documenting the massacre on social media and calling for jihad.
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1 month ago | 
theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Paul Cliteur |Ahmad Ghosn
The peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan paved the way for another unresolved matter between the two countries to be put on the agenda: the right of return for the people from the Western Azerbaijan Community. “Our case is a fundamental human rights issue, we also have the right to return,” Ulviyya Zulfikar, the community’s spokesperson and head of the Western Azerbaijan TV station, said.
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2 months ago | 
theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Adriana Lebbos |Ahmad Ghosn
Image credits: Thousands gathered in Beirut 'for the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Photo courtesy Al Manar TV. February 23, 2025 | Iran, Lebanon, Syria | Featured, UnderstandingTens of thousands of people gathered in Beirut Sunday morning to attend the funeral of Hezbollah's former leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his headquarters in the southern suburb of Beirut.
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2 months ago | 
theliberum.com | Ahmad Ghosn |Arthur Blok
Iran emerged from its eight-year war with Iraq (1980-1988) battered: its economy in shambles, no allies to count on, a fragile new political system, and an exposed national security apparatus. Its first and foremost strategic partner in this precarious state became Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria from 1971 to 2000. Now that the Assad dynasty has collapsed, will the new Syrian president Ahmad al Sharaa’s strategic ally be in the region?
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
theliberum.com | Nikola Mikovic |Arthur Blok |Ahmad Ghosn
Image credits: A military parade in Tehran on Sept. 21, 2024, showcasing the new Shahed drones. Picture courtesy Morteza Nikoubazl. January 23, 2025 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Europe, Iran, Russia, Ukraine | Uncategorized, Featured, UnapologeticAlmost two and a half years after Tehran began supplying Moscow with Shahed drones, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Ahmad Ghosn
The world can breathe a sigh of relief. Donald Trump returns to the White House for his second term in office. It was a painful defeat for the Democrats, which became, once again, evident when outgoing president Joe Biden made his final address to the nation Wednesday. Biden mumbled and stumbled one last time in a poor attempt to attack his political opponent. Every cliché imaginable was pulled out of the head.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theliberum.com | Emad El-Din Aysha |Arthur Blok |Ahmad Ghosn
“Bitcoin Mena”, a Bitcoin event organised last December, brought together companies, startups, and Bitcoin advocates in one spot to make a case for their products and Bitcoin more generally. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the Middle East’s country. It has approved the first regulated cryptocurrency (AE Coin) to be pegged to the national dirham, making it an official “stablecoin.” This is the next stage in the revolutionisation of digital finance.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Ahmad Ghosn |Robert M. Cutler
The peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have progressed much since Baku took back control over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020. All progress was made possible through bilateral context and negotiations; instead of continuing on this path, Armenia insists on inviting more parties to the negotiation table. It remains unclear when Yerevan will cut the knot on changing its constitution with a territorial claim on Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
theliberum.com | Ahmad Ghosn
Emotions often take a back seat to strategies and policies in the intricate tapestry of modern geopolitics. Yet, collective emotions like anxiety shape political decisions and redefine global alignments, particularly in regions fraught with ideological, ethnic, and religious complexities. Nowhere is this dynamic more evident than in Syria, a nation whose internal fractures and external entanglements illustrate how collective anxiety can influence geopolitics.
