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Wobbly legs, sandpaper and love

1 week ago | theliberum.com | Rafael Baroch |Paul Cliteur |Robert M. Cutler

April 15, 2025 | Europe, Lebanon, Middle East | Featured, Understanding, VoicesI never thought I’d fall for furniture restoration. I’m not talking about a “sip and craft” class fling. A two-hour flirt that you forget all about when you get home. I’m talking about the kind of love that doesn't announce itself, settles in without asking for permission. The type of love that sneaks up on you and quietly decides to stay. You don’t question it.
Will some NATO members invade Russia?

2 weeks ago | theliberum.com | Nikola Mikovic |Rafael Baroch |Paul Cliteur |Robert M. Cutler

April 10, 2025 | Europe, Russia, Turkey | Featured, UnderstandingAs the United States and Israel reportedly gear up to bomb Iran, the European Union prepares for a potential direct war with Russia. Although a large-scale conflict in Europe is not expected to occur this year, the ongoing transformation of the existing world order is unlikely to proceed without severe turbulence that could eventually lead to a significant confrontation between several European countries and the Russian Federation.
Systemic Constraints on the Armenia–Azerbaijan Settlement | The Liberum

3 weeks ago | theliberum.com | Robert M. Cutler |Ahmad Ghosn |Paul Cliteur |Rafael Baroch

April 1, 2025 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Europe | Featured, UnderstandingDespite the finalisation of a draft peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia on 13 March 2025, the formal conclusion of hostilities remains elusive. Entitled the "Agreement on Peace and Interstate Normalisation", the text has garnered broad international support, yet behind the apparent consensus lies a complex array of structural and legal impediments. By Robert M.
The regional implications of the ethnic cleansing against the Alawites in Syria

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Ahmad Ghosn |Adriana Lebbos |Arthur Blok |Paul Cliteur

Image credits: Alawite Syrians fleeing into Lebanon at Nahr el Kabir. Photo courtesy Mohamed Azakir. March 12, 2025 | Lebanon, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey | Featured, UnderstandingHay'at Tahrir al-Sham and its allies shocked the world by overthrowing the Syrian regime in eleven days last year. This week, they overthrew themselves in eleven hours when carrying out their ethnic cleansing against the Alawite sect, documenting the massacre on social media and calling for jihad.
Why Russia is unlikely to benefit from U.S.-Ukraine tensions

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Nikola Mikovic |Paul Cliteur |Emad El-Din Aysha |Adriana Lebbos

Image credits: The much-debated meeting between U.S President Donald Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo courtesy AFP. March 10, 2025 | Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United States | Featured, UnapologeticWhere two are fighting, the third wins. If this proverb is correct, Russia would have to be the primary beneficiary of the worsening relations between the United States and Ukraine, following the recent spat between the two nations’ leaders, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Work-out is not working out for me: A tragicomedy in three acts | The Liberum

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Paul Cliteur |Arthur Blok |Adriana Lebbos |Rafael Baroch

March 7, 2025 | Lebanon | Featured, UnderstandingI have always hated the gym. Not in a casual, “Oh, I don’t feel like working out today” kind of way, but in a deep, visceral, “I would rather study math while listening to elevator music” way. And yet, every few years, I find myself in a new episode of self-delusion, convinced that this time will be different. Spoiler: it never is.
Western Azerbaijanis also have the right to return to their native land

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Paul Cliteur |Ahmad Ghosn

The peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan paved the way for another unresolved matter between the two countries to be put on the agenda: the right of return for the people from the Western Azerbaijan Community. “Our case is a fundamental human rights issue, we also have the right to return,” Ulviyya Zulfikar, the community’s spokesperson and head of the Western Azerbaijan TV station, said.
Rushdie attacker Hadi Matar found guilty of attempted murder

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Paul Cliteur |Emad El-Din Aysha |Adriana Lebbos

In a knife attack in the French city of Mulhouse in late February, one person was dead and several injured. The attacker was an Algerian. Or rather a Muslim immigrant from Algeria. Who is still surprised hearing about an Islamic terrorist attack in Europe? The mainstream media, however, tries to downplay it as much as possible. This also applies to the trial against Hadi Matar (24), who attacked Salman Rushdie on a stage in 2022 in the US. Matar was found guilty of attempted murder last week.
American Graffiti

1 month ago | theliberum.com | Emad El-Din Aysha |Nikola Mikovic |Adriana Lebbos

With some reservations, I watched one of George Lucas’s non-sci-fi epics, American Graffiti (1973), a forgotten coming-of-age comedy-drama film. I have to admit; I was completely blown away!By Emad AyshaThis movie is a classic, possibly the best 1950s flick ever made, immortalising that long lost world of smalltown America with its suburban frolics and claustrophobic sprawl.
Tens of thousands join mass funeral in Beirut for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

2 months ago | theliberum.com | Arthur Blok |Adriana Lebbos |Ahmad Ghosn

Image credits: Thousands gathered in Beirut 'for the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Photo courtesy Al Manar TV. February 23, 2025 | Iran, Lebanon, Syria | Featured, UnderstandingTens of thousands of people gathered in Beirut Sunday morning to attend the funeral of Hezbollah's former leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his headquarters in the southern suburb of Beirut.