Jumah Boukleb

3 days ago | english.aawsat.com | Jumah Boukleb |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra

As an old Arab proverb goes: “With your people, you won’t perish.” Without the protection and support of one’s people, ruin becomes inevitable. A small problem arises, however, when we seek to determine who counts among “your people”, especially to those in power. Does the term refer strictly to one's kin (family, clan, or tribe) or does it encompass all citizens? The difference between the two is clear: the former is defined by blood ties alone, while the latter definition is broader.

Jan 13, 2025 | english.aawsat.com | Mike Isaac |Sheera Frenkel |Kate Conger |Jumah Boukleb

Last month, Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online speech. He had decided to make sweeping changes after visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving. Over the next few weeks, Zuckerberg and his handpicked team discussed how to do that in Zoom meetings, conference calls and late-night group chats.

Jan 12, 2025 | english.aawsat.com | Jumah Boukleb |Amir Taheri |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed

Two years into the conflict that has been raging in the country, the war in Sudan has suddenly caught the eye of Western media. In Britain, “The Times” called it the "forgotten war." Oh God! Now, it is too little too late. Indeed, According to international aid organizations, Only after 150,000 people have died, millions have been displaced, and a famine similar to that seen in Ethiopia in the early 1980s looms, did Western media outlets remember the devastating war in Sudan.

Nov 1, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Jumah Boukleb

For decades at least until the early days of the current century a saying attributed to a19th century vaudeville troupe was often used to assess the prevailing political mood in an imaginary “average America”: See how it plays in Peoria!I first heard the phrase in 1974 from Thomas Philip (Tip) O’Neil, the 47th Speaker of the House of Representatives in Washington DC.

Oct 31, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Jumah Boukleb |Eyad Abu Shakra

Many people in Sudan, and of course outside the country, had not heard of the village of Seriha, in Al-Jazirah State (central Sudan), before the massacre it witnessed a few days ago, during the assault of the Rapid Support Forces. All kinds of crimes and human rights violations were committed during this attack, innocent civilians were murdered, detainees were executed in cold blood, and the elderly were tortured and humiliated.