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Aug 19, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini
Benevolence and honorable intentions have undoubtedly played an important role in driving students and legal professionals around the world to raise their voices against the genocide in Gaza. Such efforts, if they are fated to succeed, could correct some imbalances in our region and perhaps across the globe, or at least reduce them. However, honorable intentions do not solve problems alone, they do not suffice for inaugurating the legal or student consciousness as a guide to politics.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini |David Lammy
At this stage, nothing happening anywhere in the Middle East is more important than the war in Gaza, its internal and regional developments, and the specter of a regional conflict between Israel and Iran. The positions of the world's major powers and their officials’ statements, the initiatives for a ceasefire and end to the war, and the extensive media coverage, all confirm nothing happening right now is more significant than this brutal war in Gaza.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini |David Lammy |Hazem Saghieh
Many had dismissed it as a costly indulgence for a nation facing economic hardship while some condemned it as a dangerous diversion from the deepest political crisis France faces since the 1950s. And, yet, the two-week’ long summer Olympics hosted by Paris is now universally lauded as a success in organizational, artistic, and of course sporting terms. For two whole weeks the usually grumpy French, some of them in civil war mood sheathed their daggers to have a good time together.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini |David Lammy
Some have found both the timing and implications of US special envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein’s trip to Beirut obscure. The visit’s ambiguity, or the fact that it was not constructive, further complicates things in the region generally and in Lebanon particularly. Indeed, no scenario can be ruled out. However, at this critical juncture, moments before a difficult solution or an even more difficult clash, Hochstein had nothing new to offer.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Huda al-Husseini |David Lammy |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed
Traditional wisdom holds that the current war between Israel and Hamas over Gaza, which began ten months ago, will now escalate significantly after Israel confirmed that it had been behind the assassination of Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander of Hezbollah, near Beirut. The day after Shukr's death, an explosion in an Iranian government guest house in Tehran instantly killed Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini |Hazem Saghieh
Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian seems to have a more harmonious relationship with the ruling establishment than his reformist and moderate predecessors, even better than former President Sheikh Hassan Rouhani and his team, who came under a lot of pressures, especially in foreign policy.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini |Hazem Saghieh |Jumah Boukleb
Barring another surprise “event” the coming US presidential showdown is likely to be a duel between former President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris. That duel, if it goes through, will include a number of new features. Harris is only the second woman to reach the last round in a US presidential contest. She is also the first “black” woman of Indian and Jamaican background to reach the penultimate rung of the ladder. There are novelties on Trump’s side as well.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Huda al-Husseini |Hazem Saghieh |Jumah Boukleb |Chang Hua
Nothing illustrates the crisis that Hezbollah finds itself in better than the series of speeches that its secretary-general gave during Ashoura. His voice became so long that his vocal cords were impacted. Nasrallah, who had in the past threatened suffering, destruction, and doom if the Israeli enemy dared to attack Lebanon, as well as claiming that his party was the only force to succeed in deterring the Israeli army since the 1948 Nakba.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini
Over the broad era of the past century and a half, the world witnessed four major developments that we have come to recognize as major setbacks. In 1914, the First World War broke out and "crowned" Europe’s "belle epoque" in a manner no one had anticipated. Indeed, since the Franco-Prussian War and Germany’s unification in 1871, it seemed that promise had settled in the continent. Its national borders had been drawn, especially since Italy also unified during this same period.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Huda al-Husseini |Hazem Saghieh
The first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump captivated the world and drew everyone’s attention. Indeed, the US is the most powerful empire in history, but another reason for all of this interest is worth noting. This was the first time in history that one of the candidates on the US debate stage looked like a “scarecrow” - motionless, stammering, hesitant, and at times, speechless.
