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Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any...
There is a delicious irony at the heart of Donald Trump’s presidency. In his relentless pursuit of dominance, he has done something no opposition...
“Lebanon cannot be another Gaza,” the UN Secretary General’s Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said last week in response to a question during a...
The cancellation of diplomatic visits by world leaders is rarely a matter of routine scheduling. In international politics, absence can be as...
‘States tend to overestimate themselves or the benefits and swiftness of war, and to underestimate their opponents’ capabilities, intentions, or...
There is something almost admirable — artistically, if not morally — about a “breakthrough” engineered to last precisely as long as a news...
What Washington Missed? Closing the Strait of Hormuz is not a side detail. It is the main pressure point. Every day the strait stays shut adds a new...
Richard Nixon was not a man given to moral clarity. But in the privacy of the Oval Office, away from the choreography of statecraft, he spoke with a...
When speaking about Israel today, it is easy to borrow the irony of British writer and historian Max Hastings, who has witnessed and chronicled many...
On 20 April 2026 the Jerusalem District Planning Committee approved an 11-storey ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious school known as Or Somayach, or the...
The enduring temptation in Western strategic thinking is to treat Iran as a problem to be managed rather than a civilisation to be understood. That...
The end of the unipolar illusion Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the global order that emerged in its aftermath is visibly fraying. What...
When ACWA Power and Danantara signed a $10 billion agreement in Jeddah, it marked more than a bilateral milestone. It signaled growing confidence...
For many Americans, war with Iran is still explained through a dangerously simple story: foreign pressure turns the people against their government,...
During his third official visit since taking office, Argentine President Javier Milei arrived in the occupied Palestinian territories. The visit...
They have kept their strategy of cultural and institutional vandalism generously broad in recent campaigns against their adversaries. It therefore...
Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, a fundamental question is taking shape: is liquefied natural gas (LNG) redefining the geopolitics of...
There is a particular cruelty in silencing those whose sole weapon is a camera, a notebook, or a voice. The killing of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil...
Tehran’s regional hegemony was not forged through the deployment of its own conventional divisions, but through the cultivation of a sprawling...
In 2017, twenty-seven psychiatrists and mental health professionals broke their profession’s long standing ‘Goldwater rule’ against diagnosing...
U.S. President Donald Trump was forced to extend the ceasefire, originally set to expire on April 22, after Washington and Tehran failed to agree on a...
Sanctions, deemed effective by the EU when applied so swiftly to Russia and Iran, do not have the same effect when it comes to Israel, according to EU...
“Pity the nation that is divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.” The ceasefire in Lebanon is not a diplomatic success. It...
The recent statement by U.S. President Donald Trump about Iran’s financial losses from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is less a policy...
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the temporary ceasefire is the culmination of an American policy defined by strategic incoherence. At...
The joint United States and Israeli military attacks and Iran’s subsequent retaliation have exposed a structural vulnerability at the heart of the...
The international community remains fixated on a phantom: Gaza’s “Day After.” While Washington, Cairo, and Doha debate elaborate governance...
The decision by Donald Trump to unilaterally announce an indefinite extension of the ceasefire with Iran, without any request from Tehran, reveals...
The Egyptian government has launched a media campaign featuring prominent actors and footballers, urging people to stay at home and reduce energy...
“Europe is the biggest supporter of the Palestinian people,” EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee yesterday....
The question posed by the title of this article is more than just a political inquiry. At its core, it is a question about the nature of authority in...
Could sharing publicly available footage of a military incident land you in prison in Kuwait? Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s early March 2026...
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between...
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime...
By the time Gaza entered 2026, the numbers told a story that headlines could not contain. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that...
No matter how much Teflon Trump seeks to let nothing stick, it is now quite clear that the United States has suffered an ignoble defeat in Iran. His...
“Pity the nation that is divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.” The ceasefire in Lebanon is not a diplomatic success. It...
On 28 February, in the middle of ongoing nuclear negotiations, the US and Israel launched an attack aimed at regime change in Iran. They achieved some...
A narrow ribbon of water, barely 33 kilometres wide at its tightest point, has once again exposed the fragility of global order. The Strait of Hormuz,...
Could sharing publicly available footage of a military incident land you in prison in Kuwait? Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s early March 2026...
Apple and Google Maps have become the primary cartographic imagination of the world. Two billion people navigate through them, trust them, defer to...
Reading messages from President Donald J. Trump is an exercise in taunting masochism. It is one inflicted on commentators and the press corps the...
The geography of the Strait of Hormuz is a cruel mistress to the logic of conventional military might, a reality that the world is rediscovering with...
What the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is attempting—at least on the level of political discourse—is nothing less than reclaiming the definition...
Open conflict with the President of the United States was not something Pope Leo XIV expected when his Apostolic Journey took him to the largest...
As tensions linked to the U.S.–Iran war continue to destabilize the Middle East, Indonesia and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are expanding...
The US–Israel war on Iran has shaken the whole world. The surprising air attacks on February 28, amid ongoing diplomatic negotiations, came as a...
In a development that has sparked significant backlash, Israel’s participation in the 2026 International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) in Chile has...
A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the...
Silence, in international politics, is rarely neutral. In Sudan, it has become lethal. Three years into a civil war that has displaced more people...
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