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Dec 5, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Ousmane Dione |Paul Noumba Um |Farhad Alaaldin
When it comes to the Arab Levant, it is difficult to take a sentence in a single direction or have it convey a single emotion.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Farhad Alaaldin |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra |Hazem Saghieh
In a notable indication of the seriousness of the strategic relationship between Iraq and the United States of America, the phone call between Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and US President-elect Donald Trump has given it a new dimension. This call caught observers' and analysts’ attention. It introduced a critical phase in the relationship just before Trump begins his four-year term, which the entire world is looking forward to with great anticipation and interest.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Ousmane Dione |Paul Noumba Um |Farhad Alaaldin |Nadim Koteich
The Pan Arab Electricity Market (PAEM) is a significant initiative aimed at integrating the power systems of Arab countries to create a regional electricity market among the members of the League of Arab States (LAS). The initiative was formalized in 2017 when the LAS members signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance the concept of PAEM.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Farhad Alaaldin
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Emile Ameen |David French |Farhad Alaaldin |Yousef Al-Dayni
Even before Ronald Reagan's campaign manager, William Casey, who would later become among the most prominent intelligence chiefs in the US, coined the term "October Surprise" in 1980, the concept had already been a reality on the ground. In the fall of 1956, the Suez War and the Hungarian Uprising shook the US on the eve of Dwight Eisenhower's re-election.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Farhad Alaaldin |Yousef Al-Dayni |Eyad Abu Shakra
This June, I was invited on a friend’s podcast to answer a question I’ve been asked over and over again in the Trump era. Are Christians really persecuted in the United States of America? Millions of my fellow evangelicals believe we are, or they believe we’re one election away from a crackdown.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Farhad Alaaldin
Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani (C) with BP chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, (L) and Iraq's Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul Ghani Al Sawad, sign a deal to develop four oil fields in Kirkuk, on August 1.
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May 27, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | David Brooks |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Farhad Alaaldin
We used to have long debates about American exceptionalism, about whether this country was an outlier among nations, and I always thought the bulk of the evidence suggested that it was. But these days our political attitudes are pretty ordinary. America, far from standing out as the champion of democracy, as a nation that welcomes immigrants, as a perpetually youthful nation energized by its faith in the American dream, is now caught in the same sour, populist mood as pretty much everywhere else.
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May 26, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Farhad Alaaldin |Emile Ameen |Amir Taheri
Will the International Court of Justice’s decision prevent or deter Israel from continuing its war in Gaza? The answer is no! True, the Court made an important decision when it ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah “immediately,” and to keep the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt open. It is legally binding, but there is no mechanism for its implementation. The verdicts of the ICJ, the most powerful judicial body in the United Nations, are legally binding.
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May 26, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Farhad Alaaldin |Emile Ameen
After 1948, the Arab conflict with Israel was waged with an Arab nationalist outlook and sensibility. Satii al-Husari gave a famous response to those who said Israel had defeated seven Arab armies that year. The late nationalist intellectual believed that the reason for the defeat was precisely the existence of seven Arab armies instead of just one.
