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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Hazem Saghieh |Hanna Saleh |Emile Ameen
With the Trump administration sending conflicting signals about its intentions on dealing with Iran, the Iranian leadership is once again divided on how to respond. One faction is trying to paint a grim picture in which the US will give Israel enough support to inflict a heavy defeat on Iran to complete the defeats already inflicted on Tehran's allies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Hanna Saleh |Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam
A few days ago, on the 20th anniversary of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri’s assassination, many of those who remember what happened reiterated that they had remained confident he would not be killed until it happened.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Hazem Saghieh |Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam
From the moment a law granting the warlords of the Lebanese civil war amnesty was passed, establishing “immunities” for official and legitimizing “impunity” (all compounded by an external veto on the dissolution of Hezbollah’s militia) the coup against the Taif Agreement and the constitution began taking shape. No functional state was established and, since then, the government’s role has been reduced to crisis management and the distributing spoils of a sectarian, predatory power-sharing system.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam |Nadim Koteich
If we were to avoid skepticism of the so-called Resistance Axis’ intentions- despite the many valid reasons to be skeptical and assume that their actions genuinely reflect a perspective- we could claim that they are pushing the Lebanese to finalize their defeat in the name of the victory they claim to have attained.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra
It has been decades from the end of the Second World War in which the United States played a key role in defeating the Axis powers, and then reinforced transatlantic relations through the establishment and rise of NATO in 1949. The alliance managed to maintain a united front and remained steadfast in the face of the Warsaw Pact throughout the four decades of the Cold War.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Serge Schmemann |Faisal Saleh |Emile Ameen
Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's choice of Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first foreign visit aimed to deliver blunt messages inside Syria and beyond. This isn’t only about Saudi Arabia being an economic and political heavyweight on the Arab, Islamic and international levels, but also about the new Saudi Arabia, which in a handful of years has become more open and witnessed rapid reforms and advances.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Serge Schmemann |Faisal Saleh |Emile Ameen |Mamdouh al-Muhainy
It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the US Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia, and that democracy would surely follow.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Emile Ameen |Mamdouh al-Muhainy |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Is American democracy at risk? Two overarching complexes are closing in on it, threatening to strip the United States of its crown jewel- its very essence and the foundation it has been built upon since the Declaration of Independence. Americans have long taken pride in, and loudly championed, their liberal values. They regard democracy as the cornerstone of their republican tower.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Faisal Saleh |Emile Ameen |Mamdouh al-Muhainy |Amir Taheri
The situation is developing rapidly in the Sudanese arena. Over the past two weeks, the army has made significant advances at the expense of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the states of Al-Jazira and Khartoum, shifting the balance of military power.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |David Brooks |Emile Ameen |Nabil Amr
Amos Hochstein, the American envoy to Lebanon, is in a race against time. A handful of days separate the world from the US presidential elections. The US and the whole world are awaiting the name of the new master of the White House. The world reads about the weakening of the West and reduced role played by the United States. It reads about the rise of China and the BRICS group and their economic weight and population. It reads about China’s rise and the diminishing role played by the West.
