fter three and a half years of paralyzing strife, the blockade of Qatar was brought to an end ahead of the 41st Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), turning the page on perhaps the darkest period in the union’s four decade history.
Looking at the roots of the English word “assassinate” one can better understand the context in which it emerged and has since then been used in the English-speaking world.
ne hundred fifty-three days have passed since the port of Beirut blew up destroying one third of the Lebanese capital, leaving over 200 people dead and a tally of around 3000 injured.
he way forward in north east Syria wasn’t so clear until in early November Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Russia’s Vladimir Putin over the phone to hash out the details of a ceasefire agreement in Nagorno Karbakh.
our candy is a joy that creates two different sensations in the mouth: the mini explosion of the sourness is one, but so is the expectation of sweetness.
I was an undergraduate student preparing for my final exams when the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out more than 60 air strikes against Hamas-run police stations, buildings, facilities, and military sites, killing approximately 200 Palestinians in the first few hours of the intensive air offensive.
t has been almost two decades since the United States led a coalition of Western powers to invade and occupy Iraq, on the promise to the world of ending former dictator Saddam Hussein’s purported Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) program, and the pledge to the Iraqi people that only they would be the masters of their own fates.
ecember 11, 1917 is the day which changed the course of history for Palestine and its indigenous population and the day that wrote the first chapter of the land’s modern era of colonization, occupation, and dispossession.
n October 23, a ceasefire was signed following the successful campaign by Libya's internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) to roll back General Khalifa Haftar's offensive on Tripoli with Turkish military help.
Blinken served in senior foreign policy positions with the National Security Council during the Clinton administration and at the State Department during the Obama administration.
lthough the term “diaspora” was widely confined to the Jewish diaspora and experience, with the onset of the 20th century, which saw influxes of various diasporas from different parts of the world, the term started to be used to represent the different experiences of different peoples.
lthough Donald Trump’s presidency is coming to an end soon, one of its most catastrophic quid pro quo foreign policies in theMiddleEast, namely the premature Israeli-Arab normalization, is unlikely to come to an end under Joe Biden’s administration.