Mamdouh al-Muhainy

1 week ago | english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Emile Ameen |Mustafa Fahs |Mamdouh al-Muhainy

The war that erupted at dawn last Friday, triggered by a series of painful Israeli strikes on Iran, is unlike any of the region’s modern conflicts. It is not a repeat of the Gaza wars, nor of the Lebanon front. It bears little resemblance to the US invasion of Iraq or the grinding Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

2 weeks ago | english.aawsat.com | Emile Ameen |Mustafa Fahs |Mamdouh al-Muhainy |Amir Taheri

This conflict cannot be resolved with a two-state solution. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed this point recently, warning the Security Council that hope for a two-state solution may dissipate entirely. This conflict cannot be settled through perpetual war and the firepower of the Israeli occupation that is seeking endless annexation, gulping up more and more land through the expansion of settlements.

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.

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.

Feb 3, 2025 | english.aawsat.com | Serge Schmemann |Faisal Saleh |Emile Ameen |Mamdouh al-Muhainy

It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the US Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post-Soviet Russia, and that democracy would surely follow.