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Nov 22, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Hazem Saghieh |Suleiman Jawda |Tariq Al-Homayed
Can Donald Trump bring peace to Ukraine in a day as he asserted during the presidential campaign even before he enters the White House? The short answer is: no. To be sure, his election has helped change the tone of the protagonists. Ukrainian President Wolodymir Zelensky says he is ready to work for peace in 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin, too, has readmitted the word “peace” into his vocabulary.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Suleiman Jawda |Tariq Al-Homayed |Jenny Gross
Binary thinking has defined much of contemporary Arab political thought. Of course, every notion has a binary opposite: colonialism is the opposite of independence and liberation, occupation is the opposite of resistance, reaction is the opposite of progressivism, fragmentation is the opposite of unity, and we confront backwardness through progress. Our conception of matters along these conclusive lines can be attributed to multiple sources.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Suleiman Jawda |Tariq Al-Homayed |Jenny Gross |Steven Erlanger
You could hardly find anyone anywhere in the world who isn't either contemptuous of the United States of America or furious at it. This anger or hatred isn't directed at the United States itself nor at its people. People hate the policies it has adopted for addressing countless crises and problems around the globe, and more specifically, especially the brutal Israeli war on Palestinians in Gaza, as well as its war on Lebanon.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda
Last Friday, when the US Justice Department presented details of a failed Iranian conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump before the presidential election, my initial, spontaneous reaction was: "What timing!"Yes, the timing of the announcement is politically explosive, especially with Trump winning the presidential election by a landslide amid a red wave that granted him a historic mandate.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda |Hazem Saghieh
The world’s highest Shiite Muslim authority, Ali al-Sistani, has sounded an alarm, which seems like the last warning before Iraq faces a critical turning point that neither the state nor its people may be able to withstand. These potential dangers have compelled Sistani to break his long silence, expressing dissatisfaction and disapproval of Iraq’s political experiment since the 2003 regime change, which now finds itself at a crossroads: either undergo radical reform or descend into deadly chaos.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed
“Think twice! No, think thrice before you put a word on paper!” This was the advice that the great Persian poet Muhammad Iqbal, a son of India, advised his disciples in the last century. “In using words let caution be your guide.”That thought found an echo in the writings of Sayyed Kazem Assar, an Iranian theological scholar. He wrote: “I have sat down to put pen on paper and words are jostling one another to assume existence.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Suleiman Jawda |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nassif Hitti
The EU has joined the game of sending envoys to the Middle East, dispatching Austrian diplomat Christian Berger after naming him as its envoy to Syria. It seems, by sending him, that Europe is saying: "Why shouldn’t I have an envoy like the US and others?"Our region has received many international envoys, and the last one to end his mission without achieving anything was Abdoulaye Bathily, the United Nations Envoy to Libya.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Nabil Amr |Najib Saab |Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda
The persistence of the Gaza war for many months was a major surprise that the world had not anticipated and accounted for, and there are no indications of when it will end. Even the two parties directly involved, Israel and Hamas, had not prepared for anything more than another cycle of the conflict like the others that have broken out since Hamas took control in Gaza. Hamas did not anticipate the astonishing and unforeseen outcomes of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Najib Saab |Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda |Hazem Saghieh
The $20 billion provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency this month to support the transition to sustainable energy in local communities represents a milestone. Until now, the benefits of environment and climate subsidies around the world have been almost limited to the wealthy, who are able to meet the difficult conditions for loans and grants.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed
Over the past half a century what is called “Iranology” has developed into a global industry with dozens of think-tanks, institutes, faculties and pressure groups trying to understand and explain what is going on in the Iran created by Khomerini in 1979.
