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Jun 30, 2024 | 
turkish.aawsat.com | Fayez Sara |İyad Ebu Şakra |Abdurrahman Raşid |Semir Ataullah
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May 1, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Serge Schmemann |Fayez Sara
The concept of "Global South" (as opposed to the "Global North") gained another boost in popularity with the war on Gaza. Language often tries its best to keep up with the split that divides our world. Initially, it was said that we are split into East and West, a binary that remained in usage for generations in both the "East" and the "West," and it still is. Both sides were ascribed particular traits, some derogatory and others laudatory, depending on who was ascribing them.
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May 1, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Serge Schmemann |Fayez Sara |Ross Douthat |Eyad Abu Shakra
If the students back in 1968 were divided into rebellious, longhaired pukes and conservative, close-cropped jocks, with a lot of undecided in between, the current protests at Columbia — and at the growing number of other campuses to which they have spread — have witnessed personal and often ugly divisions between Jewish students and Arab or Muslim students or anyone perceived to be on the “wrong” side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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May 1, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Serge Schmemann |Fayez Sara |Ross Douthat
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and the United States have announced they are close to putting the "final touches" on a long-awaited bilateral security agreement. It is certainly important for both countries and will doubtlessly have multi-faceted implications for the region. At the World Economic Forum held in Riyadh, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah confirmed that Saudi Arabia and the United States were close to finalizing the bilateral agreement.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Fayez Sara |Ross Douthat |Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel
Storms surround Syria, and some have hit neighboring countries. The latter have felt the impact domestically: Türkiye, its neighbor to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Lebanon to the west. The storms have also hit Israel, as can be seen in the struggle between Benjamin Netanyahu's government and its rivals, as well as the repercussions of its ongoing assault on the Palestinians.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Najib Saab |Fayez Sara |Amir Taheri
The Biden administration has been hit with a wave of criticism following the secret meeting between the Americans and Iranians in Oman, where they discussed the Houthi escalation in the Red Sea. Much of the criticism, which has focused on its lax approach to the Iranians, is justified. This has indeed been a problem for a while now, dating back to Barack Obama’s time in office. However, is opening secret channels with the enemy, whoever it may be, a mistake? Certainly not.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Najib Saab |Fayez Sara |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh
When shopping for any electrical device, we find a label specifying energy efficiency, usually from best to worse, in classes from A to G. Most countries also classify cars and vehicles into categories, according to fuel efficiency and carbon emissions. Likewise, products we buy from the supermarket carry labels that contain information that goes beyond the production and expiration dates, besides country of origin, to list the ingredients in milligrams, and whether they are natural or artificial.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Najib Saab |Fayez Sara
The matter will not be of interest to those who see politics as the "art of the impossible." As for those who see it as the "art of the possible" and believe that a lot of compromise and half-solutions are inherent to it, they cannot but be struck by the remarks of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. He called for new elections in Israel in a recent speech, seemingly suggesting that Netanyahu no longer has a popular mandate.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Fayez Sara |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh |Hazem Saghieh
Idlib, in northwestern Syria, has witnessed large demonstrations in recent days, following a series of protests in cities and villages surrounding it, extending to some of the countryside of its sister city, Aleppo. These movements brought to mind scenes and chants of the first anti-regime demonstrations that swept the region, in mid-2011.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Hazem Saghieh |Ghassan Charbel |Fayez Sara
The late British leader Winston Churchill made one of the most eloquent political claims of the contemporary era when he said that "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." If this iconic leader of the so-called "free world" and Western democracy has such a view of the political principle that democracies have sought to promote - or rather, impose - across the world, can some of us in the "Third World" that is accused of being backward not be...
