Nadim Koteich

3 weeks ago | english.aawsat.com | Ross Douthat |Hazem Saghieh |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra

Pope Francis, who passed to his reward on the morning after Easter at age 88, was a version of the liberal pope that many Catholics had earnestly desired all through the long reign of John Paul II and the shorter one of Benedict XVI — a man whose worldview was shaped and defined by the Second Vatican Council and whose pontificate sought a renewal of its revolution, a further great modernization of the Catholic Church. In one way, at least, he succeeded.

3 weeks ago | english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra |Mamoun Fandy

To say that our history moves slowly is not a great discovery. We have seen, and continue to see, generation after generation living on "causes" that revert back to square one every time a solution that ends the struggle seems possible. This is particularly true of the Palestinian cause and the "vicious attack" on it and us, but it is also true of the Kurdish cause and sectarianism in the Levant and even applies to the conflict in the Western Sahara that dates back to 1975.

3 weeks ago | english.aawsat.com | Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra |Mamoun Fandy |Ghassan Charbel

The war between Lebanon and Israel has reared its head once again. This comes after the ceasefire announced on November 27 was extended to February 18. While it was in effect, Israel violated the agreement 1,500 times, and Israel's Defense Minister announced that the occupied positions in Lebanon would be turned into a buffer zone. Assassinations of Hezbollah's military apparatus have accelerated, with several senior field commanders recently targeted.

2 months ago | english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nadim Koteich

Without any of the rapture seen when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and a number of political and civil society groups signed the “Sudan Founding Charter” in Nairobi last month, it was announced that the signatories had agreed to a transitional constitution that document adopts secularism, calls for the formation of a new army composed of RSF forces, and dividing the country into eight regions, some of which are granted the right to self-determination in certain cases.

2 months ago | english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra

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