Covid-19 has been a lengthy wake-up call. It is a loud and costly reminder of our lack of preparedness. One of many crucial questions this deadly pandemic is confronting...

Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been strained in recent years. Both countries pursue conflicting interests in particular issues in the region with a specific ideology in foreign...

At a time when the confrontations in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem persist, Israeli security and military circles have expressed concerns over the continuation of the uprising...

Turkey and Egypt started two days of "political consultations" on Wednesday with the aim of restoring their relationship. Each delegation was led at deputy foreign minister level, with Sedat...

The then United Nations acting envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams, said on 2 December last year that there are 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries in Libya. She described the...

It is evident that no one bought the official Palestinian narrative about postponing the legislative election scheduled for later this month, with the exception of the Fatah nucleus close...

Jerusalemites really are the salt of the earth. Their resilience resembles the robust trees standing at the Damascus Gate to the Old City, as they shout fiercely in front...

Earlier this week, Egypt's Ministry of Health denied the news that covid cases had spiralled out of control in Sohag Governorate and reassured the public that there were enough...

Tunisians and observers of their democratic experience are asking where the country is heading. Is there, they wonder, an implementable solution to the crisis involving the three major institutional...

The Israeli security and military delegations flocking to Washington in the past few weeks have returned disappointed following their failed efforts to dissuade the Biden administration from returning to...

Last week, an informal meeting began in Geneva linked to the Cyprus peace talks. It was an initiative by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as he seeks common ground for...

I was one of the first to predict that the Palestinian elections will not take place, from the moment that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of security coordination with the...

Egyptians woke up to the tragedy of the execution of nine prisoners convicted in the Kerdasa Police Station storming following the July 2013 military coup. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah...

The decision on 30 April by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to "postpone" this month's legislative election, which would have been the first in 15 years, will deepen the...

After 15 years of internal division, political deadlock, international disregard of the Palestinians and continuous Israel violations, Palestinians experienced a moment of hope as they dreamt of their miseries...

During the racist anti-Palestinian riots that ensued in Jerusalem last week, a protester was interviewed by a journalist concerning the approach, specifically, the language used by the enraged crowds....

Palestinian engineer Loay Elbasyouni is a remarkable man, not least because he is an integral part of the NASA team which made history last week by developing the technology...

Israel has been allowed to get away with far too much for far too long. As a self-proclaimed "outpost of civilisation in the jungle", Israel has been supported by...

President Mahmoud Abbas's decision to postpone the Palestinian legislative elections is clearly in line with the demands of the occupation authorities who rejected these elections from the very beginning...

Influential American academic Noam Chomsky asked what he called a "simple question" in a recent interview with the journalist Ezra Klein for the New York Times: "Is the situation...

The fate of four Yemeni journalists is in the hands of US President Joe Biden, Dr Khalid Ibrahim and Dr Ikram Ais have told me as they explained the...

In a dramatic escalation representative of global outrage against Israel's tsunami of crimes against the people of occupied Palestine, New York-based Human Rights Watch has released a detailed legal...

As soon as an Israeli attack on a Palestinian town, village or gathering ends, another one starts somewhere else. All attacks are intended to displace the Palestinians from their...

In Lebanon, they have been waiting for six months; in Tunisia it's three months. The Lebanese are waiting for a new government, while the Tunisians are waiting for eleven...

Over the past three weeks many European Union officials have queued up in the capital of Libya, Tripoli, to offer their support to the country's newly-elected interim authority, the...

The Jerusalemites' victory in the Damascus Gate clashes laid bare the insignificance of the Israeli occupation soldiers and their reckless behaviour. This was obvious in the photos and videos...

The current Palestinian uprising in Jerusalem is not a passing event, but rather a new stage in the history of the struggle against Israel's military occupation. This stage must...

In 1965, Syrian-Palestinian academic and diplomat Fayez Sayegh wrote a groundbreaking monograph called Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. The short booklet was published by the PLO Research Centre in Beirut....

A number of people have been arrested in Iran over the years accused of spying against the government. Last year, the authorities arrested five Iranians on charges of spying...

At a recent J Street Conference online, US Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren broke yet another political taboo when they expressed willingness to leverage US military aid as...

Iran is in its worst economic situation in 42 years, and the threat of a widespread uprising that may lead to the overthrow of the regime has become more...

It is said that history is written by the victors, but when do they write it? In the heat of the moment while the witnesses are still alive? Or...