Ghassan Charbel

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.

1 week ago | arabnews.com | Ghassan Charbel

Muscat talks raise realistic hopes after decades of delusion Short Urlhttps://arab.news/c8kp2 The Houthi youth cannot believe what he is reading. Positive messages have emerged from the Iranian-US meeting in Muscat. He had never expected that the supreme leader would allow Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi to meet with Steve Witkoff, the envoy of the man who ordered the killing of Qassem Soleimani. Yemen is going through some tough times.

2 weeks ago | english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel

In the writing genre that falls into the “What if?” category, the author presumes the occurrence of hypothetical past events that never happened, and then infers the implications. This is not a futile literary exercise. These texts point to what had, to this or that degree, once been real possibilities, and readers take two things away from these possibilities. First, those non-materialized events underscore the responsibility of those who steered history in the direction it ultimately went in.

2 weeks ago | english.aawsat.com | Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel |Ross Douthat

For the past twenty days, US forces have been heavily bombing Houthi missile systems, drones, air defenses, weapons depots, command centers, training sites, and the homes of militia leaders across several provinces, including Sanaa. If the operations continue with this level of focus and eliminate the remaining Houthi military capabilities, will that end their existence? And what happens next?

2 weeks ago | arabnews.com | Ghassan Charbel

Netanyahu’s jets or Ortagus’ conditions Short Urlhttps://arab.news/veg72 When US Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus was born on July 10, 1982, the scene was as follows: Gen. Ariel Sharon’s tanks were surrounding Beirut from all sides and his jets were bombing the capital without mercy. The general of the city at the time was Yasser Arafat, who was championing the Palestinian cause.