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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh
Poland is emblematic of the fate of weak countries surrounded by strong ones, which may pay the price of the wars of the strong as well as their agreement. It has been partitioned three times in its history, and, for years, it disappeared from the map. Mind you, a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed in 1385, and it was a formidable and powerful state in the 16th century.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed
Last week, the idea resurfaced that Israel may target Iran’s Supreme Leader – as if he were just another easy military target in the fierce war between Israel and Iran, which may soon involve the United States. US President Donald Trump made a point of distancing himself from the Israeli plan, announcing that the Iranian Supreme Leader is at the top of Israel’s target list and now within their reach. Trump made it clear he opposes Israel’s move and does not support it.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nadim Koteich
After a week in purdah, “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei broke his silence on Wednesday with a brief and enigmatic message taped in his current secret location. Well, the location may be secret to most of us but not to Israel and its US allies who claim they know where the “Guide” is hiding. This was a strange message. At no point did the “Guide” admit that Iran was facing a major crisis.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nadim Koteich |Hazem Saghieh
In mid-1964, President Fouad Chehab was counting the days till his presidency ended. The coalition of parties that supported him had a majority of nearly two-thirds in Parliament, and these deputies visited him to explain that they intended to amend the Constitution so that he could be re-elected for a second term. Chehab listened to them defend this proposal but rejected the offer. He had lost any trust that he may have had in the sectarian political class.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Mamdouh al-Muhainy |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh
In South Lebanon, the faces of the massacre’s survivors were terrifying and harrowing. Amid the rubble of what used to be homes, the people are visibly apprehensive, in pain, and broken. No one was celebrating Eid-Al-Adha, not even the children. Both north and south of the Litani River, everyone in the South is deeply apprehensive about the future. This anxious anticipation- before or after defeat- has manifested itself in many forms, reflecting its causes and implications in various ways.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Mamdouh al-Muhainy |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh |Osman Mirghani
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has a knack for politics. He owes his political instincts to his layered character, his remarkable personal journey that took him from the leader of the al-Nusra Front to President of Syria in a few years, and a keen reader of the lessons of history. Sharaa has not succumbed to popular pressure as previous leaders had, most notably President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The latter paid a heavy price for going along with the masses.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh |Osman Mirghani |Fahid Suleiman al-Shoqiran
While President Donald Trump prepares for G-7 and NATO summits later this month political circles and media in Europe are busy trying to cut him down to size before the two events. “Trump will come empty-handed,” says one commentator. “None of the things he announced with fanfare has been achieved.”Other commentators use such phrases as “deflated balloon” and “bogged down in the mess he created.”At first sight it looks certain that he has not scored big on any of the dramatic goals he announced.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Osman Mirghani |Fahid Suleiman al-Shoqiran |Ross Douthat
In a normal country, political life is structured around a constitution that outlines its system of governance. Recent developments, however, have shown that Lebanon has not yet reached this stage. Disappointment has prevailed once again after the inauguration of President Joseph Aoun raised citizens’ expectations.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hassan Yassin |Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh
Extraordinary progress has been made since the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman, and his Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, introduced Vision 2030 and set the Kingdom on a trajectory toward reform and innovation eight years ago. I will not go over the list of everything that has been already achieved, suffice to say that we have never seen progress at this pace in Saudi Arabia and perhaps the world. Yet, I’ve noticed the discontent in Western media.
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4 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Hanna Saleh |Tariq Al-Homayed
The State of Israel emerged in 1948, and its emergence was accompanied by a war and the expulsion of the Palestinian population. Its birth thus became the foundational act that precipitated many subsequent wars and, eventually, the “Arab-Israeli conflict.” However, its emergence was also foundational to the rise of military regimes and radical ideologies in the Levant.
