The optimal outcome of the conflict in Syria is for democratic elections to take place and the regime to step down. But what are the real prospects of this happening?
Preventing genocide is not always successful. But this time, by closing its borders, Europe has ensured that the necessary palliative care is also limited to the minimum.
The fall of Aleppo should not restore faith in a war criminal like Assad, whose forces committed crimes against humanity and wrecked the nation to create a vacuum, allowing groups like ISIS to emerge.
The liberation of Mosul offers the international community a unique opportunity to permit the region’s most vulnerable minorities to exercise self-preservation and self-determination.
If democracy and human rights were collective values, wouldn’t they have been more appealing to the world? عربي
Turkey is sending a message that its armed forces are still a strong and capable fighting force, despite large-scale purges of officers of the highest ranks.
The politics of rememberance in Algeria between the Liberation War of 1954, and the Civil War of the 1990s
An open letter from the Middle East to the American people after the election of Donald Trump as the new president of the United States.
The Mosul operation marks the return of US forces to Iraq after their 2011 withdrawal. What would a long term stability in Mosul need?
No one knows the solutions to Egypt’s problems better than those living there on a daily basis. But as the saying goes, “better late than never”.
"They kept asking me if I have a boyfriend; when I was kissed last …they threatened to take naked pictures of me or create a porn film featuring me."
