4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1037+ words) Today, I see this house as a news item in a bulletin: "Heavy Israeli shelling on the town of Tibnine." Images of the house, our house, flashed by, described merely as 'damage,' without a family name, without an age, without…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (430+ words) The UAE's withdrawal from OPEC may represent one of the clearest manifestations of its dispute with Saudi Arabia. The question remains: will this move affect the unity of the Gulf Cooperation Council amid intensifying Saudi'UAE competition?...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (549+ words) Mourning the losses and victims during the confrontation and resistance against the criminal enemy becomes mere theatrics and gratuitous incitement, a dance on the wounds of the honourable, and a vile, spiteful exploitation and celebration of the enemy's crimes and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (804+ words) In Beirut, the strikes were not just distant sounds of explosions, but live scenes of terror captured by phones and by the eyes of those who witnessed them. Families were trapped in traffic, watching and filming missiles falling right in…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (714+ words) It's a sunny day in Barcelona and I am catching up with my daughter when the images start coming in from Beirut." Over a hundred targets hit in less than ten minutes." From my different Whatsapp groups, I know everyone…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (327+ words) The image draws attention not only because it contradicts the narrative promoted by the current authorities regarding the protection and respect of minorities, but also because it carries multiple layers of meaning. These include human rights concerns, as well as…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (232+ words) Ceasefire and peacebuilding mediators explain that prospective negotiations can only happen when the "ripe" moment is achieved, characterized by three conditions: (1) a mutually hurting stalemate, (2) a way out, and (3) a representative spokesperson. None of these conditions are met in Lebanon,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (527+ words) The precursors of Shiite frustration in Lebanon are unsettling. Their indicators point to a sense of existential decline that has begun to dominate the community's psyche, to which it is responding by taking steps toward a civil gamble, playing what…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (300+ words) In the 1960s, amid ongoing arrest campaigns by Egypt's intelligence apparatus under Nasser-era rule, an Egyptian joke circulated about the arrest of lawyers. It told of a defendant standing before the prosecution, insisting he would not speak except in the presence…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (487+ words) I cut my program and returned home because my duty was suddenly not a resume line; it was a toddler who needed calm, a wife who needed support, and parents who should never have to run at night to stay…...