Sawsan al-Abtah

May 5, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Kevin Boyle |Samir Atallah |Amir Taheri |Sawsan al-Abtah

Of the four criminal cases that Donald Trump is facing, the one unfolding in Manhattan is generally considered the weakest. Its legal foundation is complex. Its key witness is a felon. Its details are the sort of stuff that the tabloids splash across their front pages. Worst of all, it doesn’t speak to Mr. Trump’s actions as president, as the other cases do.

May 4, 2024 | aawsat.news | Samir Atallah |Amir Taheri |Sawsan al-Abtah |Hazem Saghieh

World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of its weakening vital signs. Yet many continue to act as if a “nuclear renaissance” could be around the corner even though nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation has fallen by almost half from its high of roughly 17 percent in 1996.

May 3, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Sawsan al-Abtah |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed

As the first rumblings of war are heard from Europe the editor of a major American newspaper decides to send a reporter to the old continent to see what is going on. He wants “our best and brightest” for the job and finds it in John Jones arousing the jealousy of older and more experienced reporters. This is the opening of “Foreign Correspondent” Alfred Hitchcock’s fast-paced 1940 film with Joel McCrae in the title role.

Jan 26, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Sawsan al-Abtah |Anjali Huynh |Nabil Amr

If you had asked me just a couple of weeks ago I might have assured you that Pakistan is the last county with which the Islamic Republic in Tehran would pick a fight. I might have cited many reasons for that opinion. First, A recent demise of the classical reasons for antagonism between nation-states.Their border, almost 1,000 kilometers long, was fully demarcated in 1964, ending ambiguities left behind by the British when they withdrew from the subcontinent in 1947.

Jan 25, 2024 | english.aawsat.com | Anjali Huynh |Nabil Amr |Tariq Al-Homayed |Sawsan al-Abtah

"As a Jew, I believe that Israel now puts my life in danger because it incites hatred against me and fuels anti-Semitism worldwide," Rony Brauman tells us. He comes from a long line of Zionists, and he was shaken by the suffering of the Palestinians, so much so that he suddenly realized that the narratives he had believed in were a lie. Since the attack of October 7, Brauman believes that "the Zionist project, which had originally been meant to protect Jews, has totally failed" and backfired.