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Responsible role in mediating regional conflict

After weeks of fighting along their contested border that has killed more than 100 people and displaced over half a million in both countries,...

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Alaa Abdelfattah and Britain’s selective outrage

Ahmed Najar The intensity of the current backlash against Alaa Abdelfattah in Britain is striking – not because it reflects a renewed concern for...

yesterday 30

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How 2026 will shape the Middle East for the next decade

Riad Kahwaji Several anticipated developments in the coming year will make 2026 a decisive year, one that will witness events and shifts shaping the...

yesterday 40

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High-speed rail mirror of China’s modernization

How China has changed over the past decades can be judged by the development achievements it has made. One of the most straightforward ways to...

monday 40

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Why is it that the UK government can’t define Islamophobia?

James Renton In February, the United Kingdom government appointed a working group to provide a definition of “anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia”,...

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China’s latest 5-year plan will be watched by the world

Andrew Hammond The coming year will surely have some significant surprises in store, both politically and economically. However, one relatively...

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US air strikes won’t fix Nigeria’s security crisis but could make it worse

Femi Owolade The recent strikes by the United States on alleged ISIL (ISIS) targets in northwest Nigeria have been presented in Washington as a...

28.12.2025 40

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Hezbollah yields to Israel and must also for Lebanon’s people

Khaled Abou Zahr Hezbollah has reportedly conceded to Israel’s demands and is no longer present south of the Litani River, a key condition of the...

27.12.2025 40

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Will China come to Venezuela’s rescue?

Yang Xiaotong As Venezuela and the United States teeter on the brink of war, China has been vocal in condemning US actions. In Beijing’s view,...

27.12.2025 60

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Myanmar’s sham election will entrench conflict — and ASEAN will share the blame

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim Myanmar’s military junta is once again promising elections as a pathway out of national crisis. After more than three years of...

27.12.2025 10

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What the GOP accomplished with all that power

“What a decade this year has been.” That’s how a friend in Washington described 2025 to me. The last 12 months saw a flurry of activity as...

26.12.2025 30

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Yasukuni visit would add insult to injury

Speculation that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may visit the Yasukuni Shrine on Friday has once again put Japan’s attitude toward history...

26.12.2025 40

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Netanyahu’s 2025 gains under threat

Daoud Kuttab The year 2025 has, in many respects, been a positive one for Israel and its embattled leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been fighting...

25.12.2025 30

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Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one

Rev Dr Munther Isaac Every December, much of the Christian world enters a familiar cycle of celebration: carols, lights, decorated trees, consumer...

25.12.2025 40

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From bailouts to business: The dawn of a post-privatization PIA

Dr. Vaqar Ahmed For global investors watching frontier and emerging markets, Pakistan’s long-delayed privatization of its national airline marks...

25.12.2025 40

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I volunteered at camp for the displaced from el-Fasher. Here is what I saw

Nabiha Islam I was about 13 years old when the conflict in Darfur began in 2003. As a teenager reading and listening to the news before the dawn of...

24.12.2025 10

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Oman, India show the benefit of ‘economic statecraft’ 

Dr. Diana Galeeva Oman and India recently signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that will offer duty-free access to over 98 percent of...

24.12.2025 20

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Is the US making a great gamble to reshape Iraq?

Firas Dabbagh United States President Donald Trump’s second administration has introduced a bold and unconventional strategy for the Middle East....

23.12.2025 50

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Trump’s Christmas gifts

Belén Fernández If my memory serves me correctly, it was on Christmas Eve in 1992 that I found out there was no Santa Claus. I was a 10-year-old...

23.12.2025 50

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Sixty years ago, the world tried to stop racial discrimination and failed

Melissa Hendrickse and Rym Khadhraoui The way the story is often told is that Western countries gifted human rights to the world and are the sole...

22.12.2025 30

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How chess helped me understand grief

Vidya Krishnan On a splendid November afternoon in Goa, I watched something familiar unfold on a chessboard. The Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi,...

21.12.2025 20

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US should seek to elevate ties with Turkic bloc

Luke Coffey Washington on Monday played host to an unusually quiet but geopolitically significant visit. Kubanychbek Omuraliev, the secretary-general...

20.12.2025 30

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Somalia’s 2026 election risks a legitimacy crisis

Afyare Abdi Elmi For the past 25 years, Somalia’s political transitions have not succeeded by accident. They were sustained through international...

20.12.2025 20

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Norway’s green transition is putting Sami culture at risk

Ellinor Guttorm Utsi I am a Sami reindeer herder from northern Norway. My family and I have herded reindeer for generations. It is not just our...

20.12.2025 50

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Gulf the brightest star in Trump’s National Security Strategy

Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg The Trump administration last month released its National Security Strategy. The document, which is required by law,...

20.12.2025 30

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Dialogue constructive way to rebalance trade

French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for a cooperative economic framework between the European Union and China in a Financial Times op-ed article...

19.12.2025 50

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Diaspora vote issue highlights Lebanon’s national divide

Khaled Abou Zahr The Lebanese Forces and Kataeb Party decided to boycott the parliamentary plenary session scheduled for Thursday. The main reason was...

19.12.2025 40

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What Palmyra attack means for Syria’s security apparatus

Hassan Al-Mustafa I recently engaged in a conversation with a journalist who has visited Syria multiple times since the fall of former President...

19.12.2025 40

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When tragedy becomes an Israeli political weapon

Daoud Kuttab Tragedies are not meant to be moments for scoring political points. When acts of terrorism occur, responsible leaders seek to calm...

19.12.2025 40

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No wriggle room on binding commitments

Since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made erroneous and dangerous remarks on the Taiwan Strait situation in the Diet on Nov 7, Beijing has...

18.12.2025 30

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The West fixes its problems … at others’ expense

Eyad Abu Shakra What does it feel like to constantly wake up to news that makes you feel like you belong to a bygone era and that the principles you...

18.12.2025 30

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Nigeria must not become America’s next battlefield

Tafi Mhaka In early November, United States President Donald Trump declared that “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria”. In a...

18.12.2025 30

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Islamic finance could transform global health — if we put it to work

Dr. Hanan Balkhy Global health financing is at an inflection point. Traditional development assistance is shrinking, domestic budgets are under...

17.12.2025 30

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World order can be remade on civilizational peace, not clashes

Dr. Diana Galeeva In his famous book “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,” Samuel P. Huntington argued that future global...

17.12.2025 100

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Israel is imploding

Ori Goldberg Israel may look to many like a winner, a de facto hegemon in the Middle East. It has waged war on several fronts simultaneously, dealing...

17.12.2025 50

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Jimmy Lai’s verdict sends clear messages

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, an instigator of the anti-China riots in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, was found guilty on Monday on two charges...

16.12.2025 20

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Netanyahu’s budget blackmail

Hani Hazaimeh In Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu, the state budget is no longer a fiscal document. It is a countdown clock. And when time threatens to...

16.12.2025 30

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Pro-Israel influences targeting US churches

Dr. Dania Koleilat Khatib More than 1,000 US pastors and Christian influencers last week concluded a trip to Israel organized and paid for by the...

16.12.2025 30

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The evolution of water sustainability in MENA

Zaid M. Belbagi The Middle East and North Africa region’s battle against water scarcity has never been more urgent. As climate change escalates,...

15.12.2025 40

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Why the Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire is failing

Ronny P Sasmita Thailand’s sudden return to the use of force along its frontier with Cambodia is a blunt reminder of how volatile one of Southeast...

15.12.2025 40

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A new shift for Europe and the transatlantic alliance

Khaled Abou Zahr European politicians are today probably thinking along the lines of “be careful what you wish for — you just might get it.” It...

12.12.2025 50

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Why is Israel so determined to destroy UNRWA?

Osama Al-Sharif Having failed to dismantle UNRWA, the UN organization responsible for the welfare of millions of Palestine refugees, Israel is now...

12.12.2025 60

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Venezuela’s crisis is not an oil grab but a power grab

Jasim Al-Azzawi On September 2, United States President Donald Trump released grainy footage of a missile obliterating a fishing boat off...

12.12.2025 50

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Gaza and the unravelling of a world order built on power

Richard Falk The catastrophic violence in Gaza has unfolded within an international system that was never designed to restrain the geopolitical...

11.12.2025 40

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Rohingya running out of time as aid collapses

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim New reporting paints a stark picture of life for the million or so Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. According to an...

11.12.2025 20

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EU-wide migrant returns plan unlikely to launch

Mohamed Chebaro As if the EU as a bloc or Europe’s nation states needed the latest US National Security Strategy to add to the adversities and...

11.12.2025 20

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Pope Leo’s message of interfaith dialogue and peace

Yossi Mekelberg The first visit abroad by a new leader reveals quite a bit about their worldview, priorities and how they would like to be perceived...

10.12.2025 10

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Bashar Assad’s odd decisions

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed A year has passed since the fall of the Assad regime. The change has been immense and its consequences are still unfolding. With...

10.12.2025 20

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Trump, Al-Sharaa and the future of Syria

Robert Ford It was during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East in May that he first met Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, after...

10.12.2025 30

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Netanyahu might be pardoned but never forgiven

For a split second, when the breaking news of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to be pardoned by the Israeli president of charges in his...

09.12.2025 80

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