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1 day ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Emile Ameen
The Houthis resemble a boxer who, whenever he thinks he is about to strike his opponent, finds himself on the receiving end of devastating blows. However, despite his broken nose, gouged-out eye, and the blood pouring from his face, he refuses to leave the ring. Such behavior is met with glorification and veneration by the Resistance Axis.
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1 day ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Emile Ameen |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Will they, won’t they? This is the question that those interested in current talks between Tehran and Washington on Iran’s nuclear program are darting around in the hope of getting a straight answer. Public statements from both sides offer no clear answer. President Donald Trump seems confident that an accord that reflects his wishes is well on the way to conclusion. He is even musing about a golden age of prosperity that awaits Iranians once the accord is signed.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Mohammed al-Rumaihi |Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Last week, global and regional media outlets focused on President Donald Trump’s visit to Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi. Some of the piles of analysis we saw were objective and fact-based; others were fanciful and prejudiced. Some theories have now been shown to be misguided. One is the theory that the United States has pivoted to China and South Asia, abandoning the Middle East.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Fayez Sara
It has become common knowledge that Benjamin Netanyahu did not hesitate to mobilize the far right, in both its nationalist and religious wings, in a campaign against the Oslo Accords and Yitzhak Rabin. The latter was portrayed wearing the uniform of a Nazi officer in an infamous poster by this campaign that eventually led to Rabin’s assassination in 1995.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Fayez Sara |Tariq Al-Homayed
If you are under pressure to do something but know that you can’t do anything, what do you do? Well, you do nothing but to appear to be doing something you invoke grand principles and grand sentiments. This is what French President Emmanuel Macron and his Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot have been doing in a rather quixotic way with regard to the ongoing tragedy in Gaza.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Fayez Sara |Tariq Al-Homayed |Hanna Tetteh
It is difficult to get the Sudanese people to agree on any political question. Continuous debate, unending disputes, and entrenched polarization have long defined the Sudanese political landscape. That has been the case since Sudan gained its independence nearly seven decades ago at the latest. Accordingly, it is not surprising that the sharp debate continues, in Sudanese outlets and pages, over Dr. Kamal El-Tayeb Idris’s appointment as Prime Minister.
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2 months ago | 
aawsat.news | Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Yesterday, in Jeddah, Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers Murhaf Abu Qusra and Michel Menassa signed a promising agreement to end lingering border issues between Lebanon and Syria. In truth, neither the new Syrian government nor the current Lebanese authorities contributed to these issues, which were inherited from the birth of the current Syrian and Lebanese territories during the French Mandate period and on the ruins of former Ottoman provinces and states.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Yesterday, in Jeddah, Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers Murhaf Abu Qusra and Michel Menassa signed a promising agreement to end lingering border issues between Lebanon and Syria. In truth, neither the new Syrian government nor the current Lebanese authorities contributed to these issues, which were inherited from the birth of the current Syrian and Lebanese territories during the French Mandate period and on the ruins of former Ottoman provinces and states.
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh
This headline alludes to works of literature to illustrate political realities, beginning with Ernest Hemingway's “A Farewell to Arms” and up to the Kurdish author Ronak Murad's famous novel about the history of the Kurdish struggle “The Granddaughter of Ishtar.” The two novels' plots tie the themes of love, war, and their aftermath together- stretching from the Italian frontlines and the horrors of World War I to Rojava, the Qandil Mountains, Kunduz, and the vast Kurdish territories that...
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2 months ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Yousef Al-Dayni
“Why is Donald Trump doing what he is doing?” This is the question raised by European intelligentsia these days as they try to recover from the shock of the American presidential election which they all believed would be won by the Democrat champion Kamala Harris. France’s currently fashionable TV philosopher Michel Onfray raises the question in a number of programs as do op-ed writers in newspapers in London, Brussels and Berlin and Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.
