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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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1 week ago | 
arabnews.com | Eyad Abu Shakra
Negotiations in Muscat, calculations in Tel Aviv Short Urlhttps://arab.news/wz6ca It is an absurdity of Middle Eastern politics that many politicians and analysts are still betting on the complete elimination of Iran’s role in the region.
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3 weeks ago | 
arabnews.com | Eyad Abu Shakra
‘Israeli peace’ not a silver bullet for the Levant Short Urlhttps://arab.news/4cpp9 In Jeddah last week, Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qusra and his Lebanese counterpart Michel Menassa signed a promising agreement to end lingering border issues between their two countries.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Eyad Abu Shakra
Last Tuesday, my colleague Nadim Koteich wrote a piece about the Middle East policy of the US under President Donald Trump on these pages, building on an interview that Trump’s envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff, had conducted with journalist Tucker Carlson. Koteich did not endorse a position and was largely focused on Trump’s policies in general and his regional policies in particular.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs
Iran is a major and prestigious country that the region has an interest in seeing become stable and prosperous, away from the rhetoric of threats to shut the Hormuz Strait and support Houthi rockets attacks in the Red Sea. The Khomeini revolution was not just a major coup in Iran, but its constitution carried with it a project to upend regional equations.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tressie McMillan Cottom |Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri
I’m far from a Luddite. It is precisely because I use new technology that I know mid when I see it. Academics are rarely good stand-ins for typical workers. But the mid technology revolution is an exception. It has come for us first. Some of it has even come from us, genuinely exciting academic inventions and research science that could positively contribute to society.
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3 weeks ago | 
aawsat.news | Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Yesterday, in Jeddah, Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers Murhaf Abu Qusra and Michel Menassa signed a promising agreement to end lingering border issues between Lebanon and Syria. In truth, neither the new Syrian government nor the current Lebanese authorities contributed to these issues, which were inherited from the birth of the current Syrian and Lebanese territories during the French Mandate period and on the ruins of former Ottoman provinces and states.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Yesterday, in Jeddah, Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers Murhaf Abu Qusra and Michel Menassa signed a promising agreement to end lingering border issues between Lebanon and Syria. In truth, neither the new Syrian government nor the current Lebanese authorities contributed to these issues, which were inherited from the birth of the current Syrian and Lebanese territories during the French Mandate period and on the ruins of former Ottoman provinces and states.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Anton Troianovski |Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa
There is no longer a need for analysis to prove that, in the eyes of the Israelis, the war has not ended: neither in Gaza, where death and savagery have returned with full force, nor in Lebanon, where withdrawal is not on the table, nor in Syria, where territory is being chipped away and the skies remain, as they had been under the deposed regime, under its control.
